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R.  JOHN  CRAIG  McCOY,  1853-1919.  To  the  Colony  of  Vir- 
ginia in  1750  came  Thomas  McCoy.  In  his  "ain  countree" 
he  was  "Laird  Tammas  McKay,"  a  man  of  position  and  in- 
fluence. Like  many  another  of  his  countrymen,  he  came  to 
spy  out  the  new  land,  and,  like  those  others,  he  cast  his  lot 
with  the  colonists,  married,  and  founded  a  home.  When  his 
hrst-born.  Cornelius  by  name,  was  two  years  old,  the  father 
undertook  a  journey  to  Scotland  to  further  settle  his  affairs. 
This  being  accomplished,  he  set  sail  again  for  America.  But  when  half  the 
return  journey  was  completed,  he  died  from  ship-fever,  and  was  buried  in 
mid-ocean. 

Cornelius  grew  to  rugged  manhood  in  the  new  land,  and  had  the  honor 
to  serve  as  aide  to  the  great  Washington  during  the  Revolution.  He  founded 
a  home  in  Albemarle  County,  Virginia,  and  there  was  born  John,  the  father 
of  Samuel,  the  father  of  Milton,  the  father  of  John  Craig  McCoy,  the  subject 
of  this  sketch. 

To  these  same  colonies  came  in  1737  Rev.  John  Craig,  who  was  born  in 
Ireland  in  1715.  He  was  educated  in  Edinburgh,  and  there  married  Isabella 
Helena  Russel,  a  Scotch  lady,  in  1736.  Coming  to  America,  he  first  established 
himself  in  Delaware,  but  in  one  year  moved  to  the  Colony  of  Virginia,  and 
settled  at  Fort  Staunton  in  1738. 

Dr.  John  Craig  became  famous  in  Virginia  for  his  ability  as  a  preacher, 
his  learning  and  his  achievements.  In  Augusta  County  he  builded  both  the  Old 
Stone  Church,  Presbyterian,  at  Fort  Defiance,  and  Tinkling  Spring  Church, 
of  the  same  faith,  in  the  years  1747  and  1748.  Dr.  John  Craig  was  pastor  of 
the  Old  Stone  Church  for  forty  years,  and  his  grave  is  in  the  churchyard  there. 
Time  seems  to  have  left  no  disintegrating  trace  upon  the  ivy-grown,  gray  stone 
walls  of  the  Old  Stone  Church,  and  it  is  one  of  Virginia's  most  cherished 
landmarks. 

Dr.  John  Craig  was  the  father  of  George,  who  was  the  father  of  George, 
who  was  the  father  of  John,  who  was  the  father  of  Joanna,  who  was  the  mother 
of  Dr.  John  Craig  McCoy. 

It  is  a  great  asset  in  life  to  be  born  of  such  sturdy  stock,  and  John  Craig 
McCoy  honored  his  ancestry. 

Milton  McCoy  married  Joanna  T.  Craig  at  Buffalo,  Virginia,  in  1852,  and 
here,  in  1853,  John  Craig  McCoy  was  born. 

The  lure  of  the  West,  as  always,  was  strong,  and  Dr.  Milton  McCoy,  his 
wife  and  little  two-year-old  son  undertook  the  hardships  of  pioneer  life  in 
the  new  State  of  Missouri.  There,  first  at  Tipton,  then  at  Boonville,  John 
Craig  McCoy  spent  a  happy,  adventure  filled  boyhood,  and  prepared  himself 
for  his  after  usefulness. 

A  very  important  member  of  the  household  at  Boonville  was  ' '  Uncle  Peter, ' ' 
who,  having  been  a  faithful  bondman,  remained  a  faithful  servant  for  many 
years,  indeed  until  age  necessitated  his  retirement  upon  a  plan  provided  by  his 
beloved  "white  folks."  The  deeply  religious,  kindly  old  black  man  and  the 
sensitively  organized,  rather  delicate  little  boy  were  the  greatest  chums;  and 

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the  boy  often  helped  "Uncle  Peter"  with  his  duties,  so  that  the  two  of  them 
might  "go  a'  fishin'."  Through  the  beautiful  groves,  and  on  the  banks  of  the 
streams,  the  two  comrades  spent  many  a  summer  afternoon,  and  the  old  black 
man  not  only  taught  the  little  boy  the  mysteries  of  woodcraft,  and  the  habits 
of  perch  or  catfish,  but  instructed  him  regarding  many  of  the  problems  of  life. 
Doctor  McCoy  perhaps  never  had  a  friend  whom  he  loved  and  valued  more 
than  the  "Uncle  Peter"  of  his  boyhood,  and  surely  none  whose  homely  philoso- 
phy he  more  often  quoted. 

Doctor  McCoy  was  educated  in  Boonville,  famous  for  her  fine  schools. 
The  man  among  all  his  teachers  who  made  the  greatest  impression  upon  him, 
and  who  had  the  greatest  share  in  moulding  his  character,  was  Rev.  S.  W. 
Marston,  D.  D.,  a  man  not  only  of  learning,  but  of  fine,  strong  character,  and 
high  ideals.  Finding  in  his  pupil  the  eager  mind  and  receptive  heart  which 
appealed  so  strongly  to  him,  Doctor  Marston  gave  him  a  love  and  comrade- 
ship which  were  later  to  bear  such  noble  fruit  in  the  large  work  for  humanity 
which  was  the  passion  of  Doctor  McCoy's  life. 

He  took  his  professional  degree  of  Doctor  of  Dental  Surgery  at  the  Mis- 
souri Dental  College,  now  a  part  of  Washington  University,  St.  Louis,  Missouri. 

In  1881  he  married  Miss  Mary  Hester  Rush,  daughter  of  Rev.  William  M. 
Rush,  D.  D.,  whose  illustrious  ancestor  was  Dr.  Benjamin  Rush  of  Philadel- 
phia, a  signer  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence,  and  later  minister  to  the 
Court  of  St.  James.  In  1882  Doctor  McCoy  came  to  California  in  search  of 
recreation  and  health.  He  was  fascinated  by  the  beauty  and  promise  of  South- 
ern California,  and  within  two  months  had  bought  land  in  what  is  now 
Orange  County.  Immediately  thereafter  he  caused  to  be  planted  an  orange 
grove  and  a  vineyard  on  this  land,  together  with  the  ornamental  and  varied 
fruit  trees  which  would  make  a  home  here  the  ideal  of  his  dreams. 

Arranging  for  the  care  of  his  ranch  during  his  absence,  he  returned  to 
Missouri,  to  come  again  in  eighteen  months  to  his  land  of  heart's  desire,  with 
his  young  wife  and  year-old  son,  William  Milton  McCoy. 

Never  a  man  enjoyed  more  all  that  California  can  give — mountains  and 
sea,  sunshine,  fruit  and  flowers. 

He  belonged  to  that  coterie  of  near-pioneers  who  reclaimed  and  developed 
Southern  California.  There  was,  of  course,  the  outer  circle  of  men  who  came 
when  the  country  was  divided  into  very  large  grants  of  land,  made  during  the 
time  when  Spain  controlled  so  much  of  the  western  continent.  But  as  the  fame 
of  the  country,  its  climate,  its  agricultural  and  horticultural  possibilities  became 
known  beyond  the  eastern  mountains,  another  generation,  seeing  and  feeling  the 
opportunity,  inspired  with  the  energy,  the  hope  and  determination  of  young 
manhood,  came  from  the  East  and  Middle  West  to  do  their  part  in  building  up 
the  Land  of  the  Setting  Sun.    Of  these  was  Doctor  McCoy. 

Turning  aside  from  his  profession  for  a  time,  Doctor  McCoy  became  an 
enthusiastic  horticulturist.  But  his  energy  could  not  be  confined  to  the  limits 
of  growing  oranges  and  grapes.  He  saw  that  there  would  be,  following  his 
steps,  a  multitude  to  inhabit  the  valley,  and  he  was  zealous  for  the  growing 
community  in  which  he  had  made  his  home.  He  was  active  in  securing  immi- 
gration of  the  right  kind,  could  always  be  counted  on  the  side  of  real  temper- 
ance and  morality,  and  every  movement  toward  the  upbuilding  of  the  com- 
munity found  in  him  an  eager  supporter.  Truly  he  "built  his  house  beside 
the  road  to  be  a  friend  to  man."  His  was  a  soul  impassioned  with  a  desire 
to  benefit  mankind.    He  sowed  beside  all  waters. 

Life  in  the  open  on  his  ranch  soon  restored  his  physical  health  and  he 
then  resumed  the  practice  of  his  profession,  first  in  Orange,  then  in  Santa  Ana, 
and  in  1896  he  responded  to  the  urge  of  many  friends  and  moved  to  Los 
Angeles,  to  undertake  a  larger  work,  both  professionally  and  for  civic  better- 
ment. 

Doctor  McCoy  was  a  man  of  strong  religious  convictions.    He  was  a  Bap- 


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tist  because  he  believed  in  the  faith  and  practice  of  that  denomination,  but 
he  was  not.  bigoted.  His  life  was  an  intense,  but  not  a  narrow  one.  He  was 
a  Christian  man  who  did  not  feel  that  his  duties  were  exhausted  in  attend- 
ing church  and  paying  his  minister.  His  Christian  influence  radiated  not  only 
as  a  church  man,  but  as  a  citizen  and  a  philanthropist,  interested  in  everything 
which  concerned  both  the  community  and  the  state.  His  concern  for  the  young 
led  him  to  be  a  consistent  enthusiast  in  the  Sunday  school  work,  in  which  he 
became  a  leader  and  an  authority.  Although  engaged  in  Sunday  school  work 
for  many  years  in  the  different  cities  where  he  had  lived,  the  crowning  effort 
of  his  life,  in  the  opinion  of  those  who  knew  him  best,  was  the  organization 
and  launching  of  the  Temple  Baptist  Bible  School  of  Los  Angeles.  One  of 
the  original  committee  of  twenty-five  laymen  who  conceived  and  carried  out  the 
idea  which  culminated  in  the  organization  of  the  Temple  Baptist  Church,  it  was 
not  strange  that  he  should  have  been  chosen  to  plan  and  lead  the  Bible  school 
as  its  first  superintendent.  Rev.  Robert  J.  Burdette  used  to  say  that  "the  school 
was  born  full  grown."  It  lives  today  as  a  monument  to  Doctor  McCoy's  genius 
for  organization,  his  untiring  zeal,  and,  above  all,  to  his  character  as  a  Chris- 
tian gentleman.  Always  an  ardent  and  fearless  advocate  of  temperance,  and  a 
master  at  illustration,  his  teaching  made  a  lasting  impression  upon  the  minds 
of  those  who  were  privileged  to  see  and  hear.  Truly,  the  characteristics  of 
Doctor  McCoy's  life  were  devotion  to  duty,  love  of  mankind,  and  loyalty  to  God. 

The  following  editorial,  which  appeared  in  the  Pacific  Dental  Gazette  for 
July,  1919,  tells  the  story  of  his  professional  career  in  Southern  California : 

"To  record  the  loss  which  dentistry  has  sustained  in  the  death  of  Dr.  John 
Craig  McCoy  is  the  sorrowful  duty  which  we  are  called  upon  to  perform.  The 
dental  profession  in  its  national  aspects,  as  well  as  in  the  field  of  the  immediate 
activities  of  this  beloved  practitioner,  has  been  deprived  of  the  influence 
of  a  personality  which  has  left  in  the  annals  of  dentistry  the  indelible  impress 
of  years  of  unstinted  devotion  to  the  welfare  of  humanity.  To  him  dentistry 
meant,  service ;  to  him  dentistry  spelled  a  means  of  relieving  human  suffering ; 
to  him  dentistry  was  a  channel  for  the  wide-spreading  of  the  gospel  of  good 
health. 

"In  his  relations  toward  family,  friends,  and  confreres,  he  exemplified 
those  attributes  of  character  which,  besides  being  admirable,  are  rewarded  by 
love  and  respect.  He  was  the  nurturing  father,  the  kind  friend,  the  considerate 
confrere,  but  above  all,  he  was  the  champion  of  right  and  justice.  Altruistic  to 
a  fault,  personal  considerations  counted  for  naught,  if  he  could  see  in  the 
issue  a  possible  broadening  of  the  dental  horizon,  a  possible  improvement  in 
methods  or  devices  which  could  help  him  and  others  in  better  serving  his 
fellowmen. 

"Already  acquainted  with  some  of  the  fundamental  principles  of  dentistry 
under  the  tutelage  of  his  father,  Milton  McCoy,  M.  D.,  D.  D.  S.,  he  entered  upon 
the  collegiate  study  of  dentistry  at  Washington  University,  St.  Louis,  Missouri, 
and  graduated  therefrom  in  1875.  "While  in  college  Doctor  McCoy  had  the  great 
advantage  of  the  friendship  and  interest  of  Doctor  McKellops,  who  gave  to 
him  the  benefit  of  his  large  experience  and  up-to-date  methods.  Such  was  his 
record  as  a  student,  and  such  unusual  skill  did  he  evidence  that  upon  his  gradu- 
ation he  was  offered  a  partnership  by  Dr.  H.  L.  Judd,  whose  reputation  and 
ability  were  second  to  none.  But  family  ties  called  Doctor  McCoy  back  to 
his  boyhood  home,  and  a  partnership  with  his  father.  As  the  study  halls  were 
left  behind,  a  high  conception  of  the  deeds  of  dentistry  to  render  it  a  more 
efficient  instrument  for  good  became  the  enduring  passion  of  his  life.  He  was 
indefatigable  in  this  self-imposed  duty,  finding  his  greatest  reward  in  the  con- 
sciousness of  services  faithfully  rendered. 

"A  born  investigator  and  an  insatiable  reader  of  professional  and  general 
literature,  no  new  device  or  method  which  promised  to  assist  in  the  solution  of 
any  obscure  dental  problem  was  allowed  to  remain  beyond  his  reach. 


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"Koller,  of  Vienna,  in  1884  reported  his  experiments  with  cocaine  in 
ophthalmic  surgery.  In  1885  Doctor  McCoy  was  using  the  drug  in  his  prac- 
tice in  California,  and  in  1886  reported  upon  its  application  in  the  removal 
of  pulps.  This  incident  is  one  of  many  examples  in  his  life  which  testify  to  a 
progressiveness  which  was  in  evidence  in  all  of  his  professional  relations  up  to 
the  very  day  when  he  left  his  office  for  the  last  time,  only  a  few  weeks  ago, 
cheerful  and  smiling,  even  though  in  the  throes  of  distressing  pain. 

"He  saw  in  dental  organizations  the  means  of  approximating  his  ideal  of 
professional  usefulness  and  dignity,  and  was  the  prime  mover  in  the  formation 
of  the  first  dental  society  in  Southern  California.  This,  the  Southern  Cali- 
fornia Odontological  Society,  which  he  brought  into  being  in  1883,  we  find  today 
metamorphosed  into  one  of  the  largest  organizations  of  its  kind  in  the  West. 
It  required,  at  a  time  when  he  was  a  resident  of  Orange,  monthly  trips  to 
Los  Angeles,  to  make  arrangements  for  the  meetings,  bring  the  members  to- 
gether, and  often  furnish  the  literary  program  himself.  But  all  of  it — at  a 
sacrifice  to  himself  of  time  from  his  practice,  to  say  nothing  of  the  monetary 
phase  of  it — was  done  with  a  cheerful  willingness  born  of  his  eagerness  to  serve 
his  fellowmen  through  the  profession  in  which  he  was  so  potent  a  factor,  and 
to  which  he  was  so  ardently  devoted.  In  the  parent  association,  The  Southern 
California  Odontological  Society,  he  served  as  secretary  for  three  consecutive 
terms,  and  in  1886  was  elected  to  the  presidency.  He  filled  these  offices  in  the 
efficient  manner  characteristic  of  the  man.  His  services  to  dentistry  were  offi- 
cially recognized  by  the  State  of  California,  and  having  labored  so  energetic- 
ally in  behalf  of  dental  legislation  that  would  protect  the  public  from  profes- 
sional incompetency,  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Dental  Exam- 
iners and  served  for  two  consecutive  terms.  He  tried  to  bring  order  out  of 
the  chaotic  conditions  surrounding  dental  practice  in  the  state  at  that  time, 
and  while  he  accomplished  much  in  barring  the  unscrupulous  charlatans  and 
in  the  prosecution  of  the  violators  of  the  law,  he  did  so  at  a  cost  to  himself 
in  time,  money  and  health  deserving  of  the  highest  commendation  and  of  the 
lasting  gratitude  of  the  profession  in  California. 

"In  1898  Doctor  McCoy  read  a  paper  before  the  Southern  California 
Dental  Association  on  the  general  health  relations  of  the  teeth,  describing  cases 
from  his  own  practice  and  from  personal  observations,  in  which,  in  his  belief, 
the  systemic  derangements  had  been  caused  by  toxic  conditions  of  the  mouth 
and  teeth,  and  the  relief  of  those  general  disturbances  by  treatment  original 
with  himself  at  that  time.  Some  fifteen  years  later  the  world  awakened  to 
the  importance  of  considering  the  teeth  in  the  light  of  infections. 

"Doctor  McCoy  was  the  pioneer  in  the  entire  West  in  introducing  oral 
hygiene  in  the  public  schools,  sowing  in  1890  the  good  seeds  which  are  now 
yielding  their  beneficial  harvest.  He  read  a  paper  before  the  American  Medical 
Association  in  1894  on  the  subject  at  the  San  Francisco  Mid-Winter  Fair,  which 
was  widely  copied  in  both  medical  and  dental  journals.  Long  before  the  great 
Forsythe  Clynic  of  Boston  had  been  founded,  it  was  his  dream  to  interest  some 
wealthy  patients  in  establishing  such  an  institution  in  Los  Angeles.  May 
that  dream  yet  be  fulfilled. 

"Doctor  McCoy  was  one  of  the  small  coterie  of  Southern  California  dentists 
who  pre-visioned  the  present  College  of  Dentistry  of  the  University  of  Southern 
California,  aided  in  establishing  it,  and  was  a  member  of  its  faculty.  He 
lived  to  be  proud  of  an  institution  which  has  come  to  be  an  honor  to  the  com- 
munity and  state. 

"Doctor  McCoy  was  a  member  of  the  Pacific  Coast  Dental  Congresses  in 
1894  and  1905,  and  was  one  of  the  honorary  presidents  of  the  Panama-Pacific 
Dental  Congress  in  1915. 

"The  limitations  of  space  prevent  us  from  further  enlarging  this  bio- 
graphical recital  of  a  man  who  so  gracefully  adorned  the  profession  to  which 
he  contributed  so  bountifully ;  of  a  man  who,  through  his  religious  convictions 


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and  teachings,  helped  us  to  see  that  the  only  reward  of  virtue  is  virtue,  and  the 
only  way  to  have  a  friend  is  to  be  one.  A  noble  man  has  been  taken  from  the 
ranks.  We  mourn  a  loss  to  dentistry  greater  than  this  modest  tribute  could 
depict,  and  bow  in  respect  and  admiration  to  the  memory  of  a  life  spent  in  an 
unselfish  abandon  that  thereby  he  could  more  liberally  add  to  the  comforts  of 
those  in  the  province  of  his  ministrations.  "We  mourn  the  removal  from  among 
us  of  one  dearly  beloved  and  most  highly  esteemed  as  a  friend  and  adviser." 

Doctor  McCoy  passed  away  after  a  surgical  operation  on  June  12,  1919, 
and  sleeps  in  beautiful  Hollywood  Cemetery,  guarded  by  the  mountains  that 
were  his  friends,  and  beneath  the  blue  skies  of  his  beloved  California. 


George  jWacfe 


OR  the  past  dozen  years  George  Mack  has  been  a  factor  in 
the  oil  and  other  development  work  in  the  Southwest,  and 
has  become  well  known  among  the  mining  interests  centered 
at  Los  Angeles.  He  is  a  thorough  business  man,  has  had 
wide  training  in  various  affairs,  and  closed  one  of  the  largest 
deals  in  oil  property  transacted  in  recent  years. 

Mr.  Mack  was  born  in  Waupaca  County,  Wisconsin, 
December  31,  1863,  son  of  George  and  Mary  (Hodge)  Mack. 
When  he  was  a  child  his  parents  moved  to  Stuart,  Iowa,  where  he  acquired  his 
education  in  the  grammar  and  high  schools  and  later  in  the  State  Normal 
School.  When  he  was  nineteen  years  old  he  went  to  the  Northwest  to  seek  his 
opportunities,  and  at  Salem,  Oregon,  was  deputy  county  clerk  of  Marion  County 
for  three  years.  At  Portland,  Oregon,-  he  was  associated  with  Mitchell,  Lewis 
&  Staver  Company,  wholesale  implement  dealers,  as  superintendent  of  their 
collection  department  for  ten  years.  Resigning  this  office,  he  removed  to  Wal- 
lowa County,  Oregon,  and  was  cashier  of  the  First  Bank  of  Joseph  until  1907. 

Mr.  Mack  came  to  Los  Angeles  in  1907  to  become  associated  with  E.  A. 
Montgomery,  a  boyhood  friend,  in  the  varied  and  important  mining  and  other 
interests  of  the  latter.  Mr.  Mack  became  treasurer  of  the  Skidoo  Mines  Com- 
pany, owned  and  operated  by  Mr.  Montgomery.  Since  1914  he  has  been  secre- 
tary and  treasurer  of  the  Paunco  Excelsior  Oil  Company,  whose  chief  property 
is  in  the  Paunco  district,  near  Tampico,  Mexico.  In  1917  Mr.  Mack  accom- 
plished the  closing  of  the  sale  of  the  Paunco  Excelsior  Oil  Company  property 
to  the  Standard  Oil  Company,  a  transaction  involving  a  million  dollars.  Mr. 
Mack  is  also  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  Topila  Petroleum  Company. 

Mr.  Mack,  whose  offices  are  in  the  Investment  Building,  in  Los  Angeles, 
is  a  member  of  the  Masonic  Order,  the  Elks,  and  is  a  republican  voter.  At 
Salem,  Oregon,  April  11,  1888,  he  married  Lo  Ruhamah  Chapman.  They  have 
two  daughters,  Nina,  wife  of  H.  S.  Gibson  of  Joseph,  Oregon,  and  Helen,  wife 
of  A.  K.  Parker,  cashier  of  a  bank  at  Enterprise,  Oregon. 


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ITHOUT  the  definite  talent  for  organization  with  which  a  few 
men  of  the  many  are  endowed,  the  opening  up  of  new  terri- 
tories, the  development  of  natural  resources  and  the  expan- 
sion of  business  would  often  be  delayed.  This  organizing 
faculty,  working  on  a  stable  business  foundation,  produces 
marvelous  results  that  benefit  the  entire  sphere  of  commer- 
cial life.  In  this  connection  attention  may  be  called  to  a 
man  of  great  achievement  in  this  line,  Martin  V.  McQuigg, 
who  has  home  and  maintains  offices  at  Los  Angeles.  Mr.  McQuigg  has  been 
officially  connected  with  many  of  the  greatest  developments  in  the  oil  industry 
in  the  country  for  a  number  of  years,  and  in  addition  to  other  positions  of 
prominence,  is  president  of  the  American  Fuel,  Oil  &  Transportation  Company, 
which  company  recently  made  the  largest  single  contract  for  the  purchase  of  fuel 
oil  in  the  history  of  the  United  States,  the  quantity  being  over  100,000,000  bar- 
rels, several  ships  having  been  chartered  and  twenty  10,(JU0  ton  tankers  are  now 
under  construction  for  the  delivery  of  this  oil  in  Europe. 

Martin  V.  McQuigg  was  born  in  Wright  County,  Missouri,  September  15, 
1861.  His  parents  were  Martin  V.  and  Frances  (Weaver)  McQuigg.  He  at- 
tended the  public  schools  until  fourteen  years  of  age,  then  entered  a  general 
store  in  a  clerical  capacity,  at  a  salary  of  $200  a  year  for  the  first  eighteen 
months,  after  that  receiving  a  share  of  the  profits,  and  by  the  time  he  was 
twenty  years  old  was  so  highly  appreciated  for  business  sagacity,  that  he  was 
admitted  to  partnership. 

In  1889  Mr.  McQuigg  sold  his  store  interest  and  went  to  Ontario,  Cal., 
where  he  organized  the  Citizens  Bank,  of  which  he  was  cashier  and  a  director 
for  ten  years,  when  he  resigned  the  office  of  cashier,  but  is  still  a  stockholder 
of  the  bank.  During  this  interval  he  had  organized  a  number  of  irrigation 
water  companies.  In  1900  he  went  to  Kern  County,  California,  where  he  began 
oil  operating  and  organized  the  Euclid  Oil  Company,  and  the  Globe  Oil  Com- 
pany, and  is  yet  president  of  both  companies.  In  1902  he  organized  the  Mon- 
terey County  Gas  &  Electric  Company,  of  which  he  was  president,  this  com- 
pany operating  the  water,  electric  light  and  gas  systems  of  Salinas ;  the  gas, 
electric  light  and  electric  railway  system  of  Pacific  Grove,  Santa  Cruz  and 
Capitola,  California,  and  the  Watsonville  Railway,  of  Watsonville,  California, 
which  was  later  merged  with  the  Santa  Cruz  Electric  Railway,  which  later 
became  the  Union  Traction  Company.   Mr.  McQuigg  sold  his  interests  in  1906. 

In  1902  he  organized  the  Independent  Oil  Company,  of  which  he  was 
president  for  one  year  and  treasurer  and  director  since  then.  One  of  his  asso- 
ciates in  the  organization  of  this  company  was  Hon.  Franklin  K.  Lane,  secre- 
tary of  the  United  States  Interior  Department.  In  1907  Mr.  McQuigg  again 
exercised  his  faculty  for  business  organization,  in  founding  the  Exchange 
National  Bank  of  Long  Beach,  California,  of  which  he  was  manager  until  1914, 
when  he  sold  out.  In  1907  he  also  organized  the  Traders  Oil  Company,  of 
which  he  is  president,  and  in  1918  he  organized  the  Traders  Oil  Corporation, 
formed  to  acquire  the  interests  of  the  Traders  and  other  oil  companies.  In 
1919  he  organized  the  American  Fuel,  Oil  and  Transportation  Company  of 

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Delaware,  with  offices  at  170  Broadway,  New  York  City,  of  which  company  he  is 
president.  This  company  has  absorbed  the  Traders  Oil  Company  and  has  large 
interests  in  South  America,  owning  three  and  a  half  million  acres  of  land 
there.  The  company  is  engaged  in  oil  producing,  transportation  enterprises, 
in  oil,  marketing  and  refining,  and  also  owns  a  large  acreage  in  Oklahoma, 
Kansas,  Texas  and  Mexico.  Only  men  of  the  keenest  business  capacity  and 
commercial  experience  can  successfully  handle  an  enterprise  of  such  vast  pro- 
portions. 

Mr.  McQuigg  was  married  at  Seymour,  Missouri,  December  25,  1884,  to 
Miss  Clara  Robertson,  who  died  in  1899,  survived  by  three  children:  Frank, 
who  is  general  field  manager  of  the  Traders  Oil  Company;  Harry,  who  is 
petroleum  engineer,  has  charge  of  the  Kansas  development  for  the  Traders  Oil 
Company;  and  Clara  Louise,  who  resides  at  home.  Mr.  McQuigg 's  second  mar- 
riage took  place  at  Pasadena,  California,  June  22,  1905,  to  Miss  Annie  Wood, 
whose  father,  Almon  Wood,  came  to  California  with  the  pioneers. 


N  THE  clay  products  industry  of  Southern  California  and  the 
West  no  name  has  stood  for  more  constructive  effort  and  a 
larger  scope  of  enterprise  than  Frost.  Howard  Frost  is 
now  president  of  the  Los  Angeles  Pressed  Brick  Company, 
a  great  industry  which  was  founded  by  his  father  the  late 
Charles  H.  Frost,  in  1887. 

Charles  H.  Frost,  who  died  October  9,  1916,  deserves  to 
rank  high  among  the  business  builders  of  Los  Angeles.  He 
was  born  at  Ithaca,  New  York,  June  9,  1844,  son  of  George  P.  and  Eliza  Little 
(Benjamin)  Frost.  His  grandfather,  George  P.  Frost,  was  a  captain  in  the  Rev- 
olutionary Army.  Charles  H.  Frost  received  his  early  education  in  Ithaca  and 
Chicago,  and  finally  in  a  high  school  at  Quincy,  Illinois.  In  1862,  at  the  age 
of  eighteen  he  left  school  and  as  his  father  refused  to  permit  him  to  enlist  as 
a  fighting  man  he  took  employment  in  the  commissary  department  as  a  civilian 
at  Chicago.  Two  years  later  he  was  transferred  to  the  quartermaster's  depart- 
ment at  Cincinnati  and  promoted  to  cashier,  where  he  remained  two  years  more. 

His  first  business  was  life  insurance,  connected  with  the  Home  Mutual 
Life  Insurance  Company  of  Cincinnati.  He  became  its  secretary  and  in  1868 
resigned  to  join  the  United  States  Life  Insurance  Company  of  New  York  as 
manager  of  the  western  department.    He  continued  that  work  until  1877. 

Charles  H.  Frost  first  entered  the  pressed  brick  business  in  1877,  when  he 
organized  a  large  company  with  a  capital  of  $500,000  in  Chicago.  He  was  made 
general  manager  and  was  its  directing  head  for  ten  years.  He  acquired  an 
independent  fortune  in  the  business,  and  came  to  California  in  1887.  Being 
unwilling  to  retire  he  organized  in  1887  the  Los  Angeles  Pressed  Brick  Com- 
pany, and  became  its  president  and  general  manager.  The  business  was  capi- 
talized for  $500,000  and  some  of  the  foremost  business  men  of  Los  Angeles  were 
associated  with  Mr.  Frost  in  the  enterprise.  The  main  plant  is  at  Los  Angeles 
and  there  are  other  plants  at  Santa  Monica,  Point  Richmond,  and  the  newest 
and  one  of  the  largest  at  Alberhill,  Riverside  County,  and  the  output  is  dis- 
tributed throughout  the  coast.  Charles  H.  Frost  was  a  member  of  the  Union 
League  Club  of  Chicago,  of  the  Building  Trades  Club  of  New  York  and  the 
Jonathan  Club  of  Los  Angeles,  and  was  a  thirty-second  degree  Mason.  On  No- 
vember 19,  1869,  at  Davenport,  Iowa,  he  married  Helen  I.  Sherman.  They  be- 
came the  parents  of  two  children,  Lida  E.,  Mrs.  L.  J.  Huff  and  Howard. 

Howard  Frost  was  born  in  Chicago,  August  28,  1883,  and  was  a  small 
child  when  brought  to  Los  Angeles.  He  entered  the  public  schools  in  1889  and 
at  the  age  of  thirteen  attended  the  Gunnery  School  for  Boys  at  Washington, 
Connecticut,  for  four  years,  the  Belmont  School  for  Boys  at  Belmont,  California, 
a  year  and  a  half,  spent  one  year  in  Occidental  College  in  Los  Angeles,  and 
completed  his  education  with  another  year  at  the  University  of  Southern  Cali- 
fornia. 

After  leaving  school  Mr.  Frost  entered  the  Los  Angeles  Pressed  Brick 
Company  and  started  in  at  the  factory  for  the  purpose  of  acquiring  a  thorough 
practical  knowledge  of  every  phase  of  the  business.  His  first  duties  were  that 
of  shipping  clerk  and  time  keeper,  and  he  worked  in  all  the  various  depart- 

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ments  from  the  factory  to  the  general  offices.  He  was  general  manager  of  the 
Richmond  plant  during  the  first  year  of  its  operation  in  1907.  Later  he  was 
elected  vice-president  and  in  1913  became  president  of  this  prominent  corpora- 
tion. He  is  also  a  director  of  the  Business  Men's  Co-operative  Association,  is  a 
member  of  Sunset  Lodge  No.  352,  Ancient  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  Jonathan 
Club,  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club  and  is  a  Presbyterian  and  a  republican.  On 
August  31,  1904,  he  married  Alice  Mae  Bond.  They  have  one  son,  John  Lau- 
rence, born  in  1912. 


Domingo  Amestoy 


©omtngo  &megtop 


F  THE  old  timers  in  California  one  of  the  names  that  can 
be  recalled  most  fitly  is  Domingo  Amestoy.  He  arrived  in 
California  shortly  after  the  discovery  of  gold.  While  he  en- 
gaged in  mining,  that  was  not  his  permanent  vocation.  His 
interests  lay  chiefly  in  the  field  of  ranching  and  stock  rais- 
ing, and  from  his  accumulating  resources  he  made  a  hand- 
some fortune  and  used  it  wisely  and  well. 

He  was  born  at  St.  Pierre  d'  Irube,  France,  in  1822.  The 
spirit  of  adventure  was  in  him.  At  the  age  of  fourteen,  after  completing  his 
education,  he  left  France  and  went  to  Argentine  in  South  America.  He  learned 
the  trade  of  shoemaker  and  followed  it  until  1851.  That  year  brought  him  to 
California  after  a  voyage  of  six  months  around  Cape  Horn.  At  San  Fran- 
cisco he  remained  a  brief  time  and  then  went  to  the  placer  mines  of  Tuolumne 
County.  He  soon  found  employment  on  a  large  ranch,  and  worked  until  he  had 
saved  enough  to  buy  some  stock  of  his  own.  He  brought  his  small  herd  south 
to  the  vicinity  of  Santa  Barbara,  but  always  marketed  his  cattle  by  driving 
them  north  to  San  Francisco.  Later  he  moved  to  Los  Angeles,  and  worked  for 
a  sheep  rancher  named  Noriega.  Again  he  went  through  the  laborious  process 
of  saving  his  earnings  and  gradually  accumulating  a  flock  of  his  own.  He 
finally  bought  650  acres  near  Los  Angeles  at  Rosecranz.  From  that  time  on  he 
increased  his  holdings  in  Los  Angeles  and  surrounding  country.  In  1888  he 
acquired  4,500  acres  in  the  San  Fernando  Valley  known  as  the  Encino  Ranch. 
This  has  been  one  of  the  noted  ranch  holdings  in  Southern  California.  Not 
long  after  acquiring  that  magnificent  property  Domingo  Amestoy  retired,  and 
his  death  occurred  January  11,  1892. 

He  was  one  of  the  charter  members  of  the  Los  Angeles  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce. He  was  also  one  of  the  original  stockholders  of  the  Farmers  and  Mer- 
chants Bank  and  the  Guaranty  Trust  and  Savings  Bank.  He  was  a  Catholic 
and  in  politics  a  republican. 

He  had  already  accumulated  considerable  property  in  California  when 
he  went  back  to  France  and  married  a  girl  from  his  own  country.  Mary 
Elizabeth  Amestoy  was  born  in  1843  and  died  March  17,  1891.  She  became 
the  mother  of  thirteen  children,  eight  of  whom  are  still  living.  Mrs.  Junita 
A.  Glass,  A.  J.,  J.  B.,  Mrs.  Louis  Sentous,  Jr.,  Peter  D.,  Michael  F.,  Joseph  P. 
and  Mrs.  Elizabeth  A.  Wells,  all  of  whom  reside  in  Los  Angeles. 


Michael  F.  Amestoy,  who  during  his  active  career  has  represented  many 
of  the  extensive  interests  of  the  Amestoy  family  in  Los  Angeles,  was  born  in 
Los  Angeles,  January  29,  1877,  son  of  the  late  Domingo  Amestoy,  whose  inter- 
esting career  as  a  California  old  timer  precedes  this  sketch. 

Michael  was  well  reared  and  liberally  educated.  He  was  under  the  in- 
struction of  a  private  tutor  in  the  family  home  to  the  age  of  fifteen,  and  then 

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took  the  classical  course  of  St.  Vincent's  College  for  five  years.  Mr.  Amestoy 
handled  many  of  the  details  of  his  father's  estate,  especially  the  Los  Angeles 
property,  until  1900.  In  that  year  the  interests  were  incorporated  as  the 
Amestoy  Estate  Company,  of  which  Michael  F.  Amestoy  was  president  until 
1913.    Since  that  date  he  has  looked  after  his  private  affairs. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Elks  Order,  the  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club  and  is 
a  Catholic.  In  New  York  City  June  22,  1905,  he  married  Miss  Elizabeth  Munn. 
They  have  three  children,  Michael  F.,  Jr.,  born  in  Los  Angeles,  September  10, 
1910,  is  in  St.  Brendan's  parochial  school;  John,  born  April  28,  1915,  and 
William,  born  on  March  19,  1917. 


Joadjtm     jf ,  Jarcfjoto 


T  IS  difficult  to  do  full  credit  in  a  brief  sketch  to  the  life  his- 
tory of  the  late  Mr.  Jarchow,  who  for  more  than  forty  years 
made  his  home  at  San  Gabriel  and  during  that  time  gave  the 
best  that  was  in  him  and  of  his  influence  to  the  growth  and 
welfare  of  his  community.  His  life  story  is  that  of  a  self- 
made  man,  one  who  came  poor  and  alone  to  American  shores, 
and  exemplified  the  finest  virtues  of  the  pioneer  in  the  con- 
quest of  the  Middle  and  the  Far  West. 
He  arrived  in  this  country  more  than  sixty  years  ago,  reaching  New  York 
with  a  single  dollar  in  his  pocket,  one-half  of  which  he  spent  for  his  first  Amer- 
ican breakfast.  From  humble  and  inauspicious  beginnings  he  made  steady  prog- 
ress by  force  of  his  industry,  integrity  and  application  and  honest  efforts.  In  his 
declining  years  he  enjoyed  the  fruits  of  his  well  spent  career  at  his  attractive 
home  at  Mission  Road  and  Main  streets  in  San  Gabriel,  where  amid  his  orange 
groves  and  flowers,  surrounded  by  friends  and  neighbors,  he  quietly  passed 
away  September  21,  1919,  when  in  his  ninety-fifth  year. 

The  late  Mr.  Jarchow  was  born  January  13,  1825,  in  the  northern  portion 
of  Germany  about  fifty  miles  from  the  city  of  Hamburg.  He  grew  up  on  a 
farm.  At  an  early  age  he  learned  to  assume  his  share  of  farm  duties.  As  a 
boy  he  milked  the  cows  and  did  other  farm  tasks  fitted  to  his  size  and  strength. 
He  was  eighteen  years  of  age  when  his  father  died.  Being  the  oldest  of  seven 
children  he  conscientiously  assumed  increased  responsibilities  in  looking  after 
the  family  and  remained  on  the  home  farm  until  he  was  nearly  thirty  years 
of  age.  Then,  having  seen  his  brothers  and  sisters  come  to  manhood  and  wom- 
anhood, he  determined  to  seek  the  greater  opportunities  of  America.  Octo- 
ber 20,  1853,  he  sailed  from  Hamburg  on  a  sailing  vessel.  After  three  months 
on  the  ocean  the  boat  reached  New  York  harbor  January  10,  1854.  There  he 
met  a  friend  who  supplied  him  with  transportation  to  Buffalo.  At  Buffalo  he 
cut  wood  for  a  time,  and  soon  found  an  opportunity  to  work  on  a  small  farm 
at  wages  of  $10.00  a  month  and  board.  He  milked  cows,  looked  after  the  stock 
and  did  other  farm  work.  The  second  year  his  wages  were  raised  to  $12.00  a 
month.  His  next  employment  was  on  a  large  milk  farm,  where  he  milked  twenty 
or  more  cows  night  and  morning.  When  he  tired  of  this  employment  he  made 
the  next  important  step  in  his  pioneer  progress,  going  out  in  Minnesota  Terri- 
tory, and  at  Stillwater  for  one  year,  1856-57,  he  worked  in  a  lumber  yard.  He 
also  took  up  a  government  claim.  About  the  time  the  Civil  war  began  in 
America  he  and  his  three  brothers  went  to  a  point  twenty  miles  below  Memphis, 
Tennessee,  and  took  a  contract  to  cut  wood.  Soon  the  trend  of  fighting  moved 
in  their  direction  and  the  brothers  gave  up  their  enterprise  and  returned  to 
Minnesota  where  they  resumed  farming  on  their  claim.  Jointly  they  had  a 
hundred  twenty  acres,  most  of  which  they  cleared  and  improved  and  brought 
under  cultivation.  They  were  stock  farmers,  and  while  in  Minnesota  Mr. 
Jarchow  did  much  to  improve  and  raise  the  standard  of  dairy  cows  in  his  dis- 
trict. He  and  his  brothers  were  the  first  settlers  in  their  particular  locality, 
and  they  did  real  pioneer  work  in  laying  the  foundation  of  a  civilization  which 
later  comers  enjoyed. 

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Mr.  Jarchow  left  Minnesota  and  came  to  California  in  1876,  the  centennial 
year.  Tales  of  the  marvelous  resources  and  wonders  of  the  Southwest  were 
being  continually  read  at  that  time  as  at  present,  and  Mr.  Jarchow  finally  de- 
termined to  test  the  words  of  others  by  his  own  personal  observation.  Selling 
his  Minnesota  farm  he  arrived  in  San  Gabriel,  February  28,  1876.  At  first  he 
rented  a  small  tract  but  soon  bought  his  home  place  of  ten  acres.  This  land  like 
most  of  the  lands  around  San  Gabriel  at  that  time,  was  raw  and  practically 
unproductive.  Once  again  Mr.  Jarchow  started  in  as  a  pioneer,  in  a  manner 
repeating  what  he  had  done  in  Minnesota  many  years  previous.  He  set  out  an 
orange  grove,  from  year  to  year  added  to  the  beauty  and  adornments  of  his 
home.  While  without  experience  in  the  growing  of  citrus  fruit,  orange  culture 
seemed  to  come  natural  with  him,  and  in  the  course  of  time  he  was  regarded 
as  an  authority  on  orange  growing  in  his  valley.  At  an  early  day  he  sold  his 
oranges  for  as  high  as  $5.00  a  box.  One  season  his  oranges  were  awarded  the 
only  gold  medal  given  by  the  Pasadena  Fair.  He  had  many  other  medals  given 
his  crop  at  fairs  and  exhibits,  and  he  probably  took  more  satisfaction  in  the 
superior  quality  of  his  fruit  than  in  the  financial  profit  that  he  gathered.  He 
was  identified  with  every  progressive  movement  in  his  locality,  being  a  member 
of  the  Grange  in  eai'ly  years.  He  used  his  influence  and  co-operated  with  his 
neighbors  in  creating  and  perfecting  the  water  system  for  the  irrigation  of 
the  lands  in  his  district,  and  for  a  number  of  years  served  as  water  superin- 
tendent. Throughout  his  residence  at  San  Gabriel  he  was  known  as  a  stanch 
friend  of  education  and  served  his  school  district  very  capably  as  a  member  of 
the  Board  of  School  Trustees. 

Mr.  Jarchow  was  twice  married.  His  first  wife  was  Miss  Sophia  Bruck. 
They  were  married  in  Minnesota,  in  1862.  Her  death  occurred  in  San  Gabriel, 
in  1900.  Two  years  later  at  San  Gabriel  Mr.  Jarchow  married  Mrs.  Johanna 
Kretchmer,  widow  of  Otto  Kretchmer  and  daughter  of  Henry  Lahl.  Mrs.  Jar- 
chow was  born  in  Germany  and  came  to  the  United  States  February  16,  1882. 


jMrs.  jWetotna  a.  lott 


O  A  "native  son"  there  is  great  distinction  in  belonging  to  a 
family  founded  in  California  by  those  sturdy  pioneers,  the 
"forty-niners,"  equalled  by  the  pride  displayed  by  those  of 
New  England  birth  in  descent  from  passengers  on  the  historic 
Mayflower.  Therefore,  it  is  but  natural  that  Mrs.  Melvina  A. 
Lott  is  proud  of  the  fact  that  she  is  a  niece  of  the  famous 
Remi  Nadeau,  known  all  over  the  West  as  proprietor  of  the 
Cerro  Gordo  Freighting  Company,  and  later  as  the  builder 
of  the  old  Nadeau  House  that  still  stands  at  First  and  Spring  streets,  then  the 
finest  portion  of  Los  Angeles. 

Mrs.  Lott  was  brought  from  Vermont  to  Los  Angeles  when  a  child  during 
1875.  Her  people  were  Canadians,  who  spent  a  few  years  in  Vermont  prior  to 
making  the  long  trip  overland  to  the  "land  of  promise."  They,  too,  were 
practical  and  bought  considerable  property  at  Los  Angeles.  Mrs.  Lott's  mother, 
Adele  Nadeau,  was  the  youngest  of  fifteen  children,  all  of  whom  were  born  in 
Canada.  She  was  born  in  1841,  had  a  beautiful  voice  and  at  eighteen  was  the 
leading  soprano  in  Quebec  Cathedral.  She  married  Michel  LaPointe  in  1861. 
They  had  eight  children,  of  whom  Mrs.  Lott  is  the  second,  and  five  are  still 
living.    The  father  died  in  Los  Angeles  in  1909,  and  the  mother  in  1910. 

In  1884  Mrs.  Lott  married  Austin  E.  Lott,  who  for  seventeen  years  was 
agent  for  Mr.  Nadeau.  Soon  after  his  marriage  he  bought  the  teams  and  outfit 
of  Mr.  Nadeau,  and  taking  his  young  wife  to  the  mining  camp  at  Daggett, 
he  continued  the  freighting  business,  she  keeping  the  books.  During  the  last 
sixteen  years  of  his  life  Mr.  Lott  lived  in  Los  Angeles  and  there  his  death 
occurred.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Lott  have  a  son,  Esperance  A.  Lott,  and  a  daughter,  who 
is  now  Mrs.  H.  M.  Keller.  At  his  death  Mr.  Lott  left  his  widow  some  very 
valuable  property,  located  opposite  Pershing  Square,  where  she  now  resides. 
She  was  subsequently  married  to  a  man  bearing  the  same  name  as  her  first 
husband,  but  not  related. 

A  lady  of  large  means,  Mrs.  Lott's  heart  is  as  richly  endowed  with  a  wealth 
of  sympathy  and  generosity  as  her  purse  with  gold,  and  her  benefactions  are 
numerous  and  varied.  A  consistent  member  of  the  First  Methodist  Church  of 
Los  Angeles,  which  she  joined  when  but  twelve  years  old,  she  has  made  it  many 
donations,  the  latest  being  a  $10,000  chimes  equipment  for  the  new  church  edi- 
fice, her  name  and  subscription  heading  the  list.  She  also  financed  the  First 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church  Red  Cross  Auxiliary  of  over  1,700  members,  and  is  a 
life  member  of  five  church  societies  of  Los  Angeles.  During  the  past  two  years 
she  has  been  an  earnest  worker  in  the  Red  Cross,  has  been  a  leader  in  rummage 
sales,  bazaars,  and  kindred  benefactions,  and  raised  for  the  cause  thousands  of 
dollars.  She  obtained  materials  from  factories  and,  with  her  helpers,  made  at 
her  home  over  300  rugs,  her  output  in  salvage  consisting  of  everything  from 
rags  to  gold  and  silver.  An  unusual  privilege  was  conferred  upon  her  in  that 
she  was  the  only  person,  aside  from  Red  Cross  headquarters,  allowed  to  sell 
the  products  of  her  gathering  and  manufacture.  During  two  years  she  worked 
indefatigably  in  this  noble  cause,  and  the  highest  Red  Cross  medal  was  con- 
ferred upon  her. 

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While  Mrs.  Lott  did  not  arrive  in  California  until  the  pioneer  period  was 
past,  she  imbibed  much  of  the  spirit  of  those  glorious  days  and  possessed  some 
of  the  characteristics  of  the  men  and  women  who  raised  standards  of  hearty, 
wholesome  hospitality,  generous,  open-handed  friendship,  and  a  fearlessness  in 
supporting  what  they  believed  to  be  right  and  good.  As  long  as  such  persons  as 
Mrs.  Lott  remain,  Los  Angeles  will  continue  to  live  up  to  its  name,  and  the 
spirit  of  the  founders  of  the  "Golden  State"  will  continue  to  animate  it  and 
its  works. 

Perhaps  the  finest  crown  of  long  experience  and  achievement  is  the  spirit 
of  humility  which  is  found  in  all  really  wise  people.  Many  of  her  close  friends 
and  co-workers  have  long  known  Mrs.  Lott  for  her  literary  ability,  especially  as 
a  writer  of  verse,  much  of  which  has  been  heard  in  church  and  charity  enter- 
tainments. The  quality  of  her  verse  and  the  spirit  just  noted  above  is  best 
expressed  in  the  following  stanzas  from  the  pen  of  Mrs.  Lott : 

What  can  I  say  that  has  not  been  said? 

Of  the  pleasant  things  in  life? 
What  can  I  tell  that  has  not  been  told 

Of  all  the  world's  sadness  and  strife? 


What  can  I  see  no  other  has  seen  ? 

The  beautiful  everywhere  found — 
I  can  see  with  just  my  own  viewpoint — 

All  the  bad  and  the  good  around. 

What  can  I  hear  not  heard  by  others? 

There  is  music  in  everything. 
It's  just  within  self,  in  mind  and  will 

That  gives  all  a  musical  ring. 

What  can  I  be  no  other  has  been  ? 

Nothing  but  my  only  self,  Me, 
For  there  were  never  two  just  alike, 

So  I  can  just  one  pattern  be. 

What  can  I  do  that  has  not  been  done 
In  this  world  of  pleasure  and  strife? 

It  is  only  character  that  counts — 
In  the  building  to  make  a  life. 

What  can  I  love  any  more  than  you? 

Only  that  which  belongs  to  me — 
As  personal  gifts  from  God  I  love ; 

And  that  is  just  as  it  should  be. 

What  can  I  take  with  me  when  I  go? 

Not  an  item  more  than  can  you. 
We  bring  nothing  in,  take  nothing  out, 

'Tis  something  we  can  not  undo. 

What  are  the  pleasures  to  be  enjoyed, 
By  the  taste,  touch,  hearing  or  sight — 

Not  enjoyed  by  the  first  here  on  earth? 
The  answer  is  none,  and  'tis  right. 


MRS.  MELVINA  A.  LOTT 


When  I  pass  on  and  my  story  told, 
I'll  be  worth  just  this,  hear  me  say! 

Not  one  cent  less,  or  one  penny  more — 
Than  what  I  have  given  away. 

When  I  shall  go  to  the  Great  Beyond — 
And  the  song  of  my  life  is  sung — 

I'll  be  remembered  by  just  one  thing; 
And  that  will  be,  what  I  have  done. 


UFUS  W.  BURNHAM  is  one  of  the  oldest  men  in  the  service 
of  the  internationally  known  mercantile  agency  of  R.  G.  Dun 
&  Company.  That  firm  was  established  in  New  York  in  1841. 
While  one  of  the  oldest  mercantile  agencies  in  America  and 
with  a  widespread  service  that  makes  the  name  "Dun"  a 
common  phrase  in  commercial  transactions,  it  is  a  matter  of 
interest  to  note  that  Mr.  Burnham  became  associated  with 
the  company  more  than  forty  years  ago  and  has  therefore 
been  in  its  service  through  more  than  half  of  its  total  existence. 

Mr.  Burnham,  who  has  had  charge  of  the  Los  Angeles  branch  agency 
since  1894,  took  charge  of  this  office  seven  years  after  it  was  established  in 
1887.  The  first  location  of  R.  G.  Dun  &  Company  in  Los  Angeles  was  232 
North  Main  Street,  where  the  office  was  maintained  over  twenty  years,  and 
since  1908  Mr.  Burnham  has  had  his  headquarters  in  the  International  Bank 
Building.  Through  the  experienced  direction  of  Mr.  Burnham  the  Dun  & 
Company  agency  has  become  an  indispensable  factor  to  the  business  community, 
and  has  facilities  for  the  most  perfect  and  reliable  information  as  to  credits 
and  financial  conditions  generally. 

Mr.  Burnham  was  born  in  Windham,  Connecticut,  January  21,  1851,  and 
was  only  three  months  old  when  his  father,  William  Burnham,  died.  His 
mother,  Ellen  (Bass)  Burnham,  is  still  living,  at  the  age  of  ninety  years,  and 
retains  her  faculties  almost  unimpaired.  She  resides  at  Andover,  Con- 
necticut. 

Mr.  Burnham  was  educated  in  public  and  private  schools  at  Windham, 
Connecticut,  and  Wilbraham,  Massachusetts,  and  as  a  young  man  went  to  work 
in  a  book  and  stationery  house  at  Norwich,  Connecticut.  He  was  employed 
there  seven  years  and  after  that  was  with  a  dry  goods  house  at  Hartford,  Con- 
necticut. He  first  came  to  the  West  in  1877,  and  in  1878  entered  the  employ  of 
the  R.  G.  Dun  &  Company  at  Kansas  City.  He  was  sent  to  Denver,  Colorado,  as 
manager  of  the  company's  agency  there  in  1880,  but  resigned  in  1884,  and  for 
thirty-five  years  has  made  his  home  on  the  Pacific  Coast.  For  ten  years  he 
spent  most  of  his  time  traveling  as  a  reporter  for  Dun  &  Company,  and  in  1894 
took  the  management  of  the  Los  Angeles  office. 

During  his  long  residence  in  Los  Angeles  he  has  been  a  valued  leader  in 
many  movements  for  the  upbuilding  and  progress  of  the  city  and  county.  He 
served  on  the  executive  committee  of  the  Municipal  League  since  it  was  organ- 
ized until  1914,  and  for  several  years  was  first  vice  president.  He  was  a  director 
of  the  Los  Angeles  Chamber  of  Commerce  from  January,  1912,  to  January,  1916, 
and  has  been  a  member  of  its  more  important  committees.  In  1896,  during  the 
first  McKinley  campaign,  he  was  one  of  the  five  members  of  the  executive  com- 
mittee of  the  Business  Men's  Sound  Money  Club.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Sixth 
Agricultural  District  Association,  in  charge  of  the  Exposition  Park,  and  served 
as  chairman  in  1919.  Mr.  Burnham  is  also  a  member  of  one  of  the  most  ex- 
clusive clubs  in  the  city,  the  Sunset  Club,  which  he  served  as  president  in  1908. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Jonathan  Club,  City  Club,  Merchants'  and  Manufac- 
turers' Association,  and  during  the  war  was  very  active  as  a  leader  in  both 

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the  Red  Cross  and  Liberty  Bond  campaigns,  heading  a  team  in  support  of  both 

organizations. 

Mr.  Burnham  resides  at  the  Bryson  Apartments.  He  married,  at  Oakland, 
California,  December  30,  1887,  Miss  Marion  Bennison.  She  died  at  Los  Angeles 
February  8,  1917.  Mr.  Burnham  has  one  daughter,  Mrs.  Richard  H.  Oakley  of 
Los  Angeles,  who  was  born  at  Oakland  and  educated  in  the  Los  Angeles  High 
School  and  is  a  graduate  of  Marlboro  School  for  Girls  at  Los  Angeles  and  of 
Dana  Hall  in  Wellesley.  Mrs.  Oakley  has  two  daughters,  Barbara  and  Jean, 
natives  of  Los  Angeles. 


HETHER  he  is  known  by  personal  acquaintance — a  privilege 
esteemed  by  many  of  the  leading  business  men  and  citizens 
of  Los  Angeles — or  by  the  thousands  and  hundreds  of  thou- 
sands who  know  his  name  as  a  symbol  of  good  service  in  con- 
nection with  the  City  Dye  Works  and  Laundry  Company, 
the  outstanding  feature  of  John  Joseph  Jenkins  is  an  unlimit- 
ed energy  for  work  and  a  never-ending  desire  to  make  his 
work  of  real  benefit  and  service  to  his  fellowmen. 
A  great  many  people  work  as  a  necessary  prerequisite  to  getting  some- 
thing they  need  or  desire.  Though  Mr.  Jenkins  began  to  make  his  living  by 
work  when  eleven  or  twelve  years  of  age,  apparently  he  has  not  yet  become 
satisfied  that  work  is  entitled  to  be  followed  by  rest.  Some  of  his  old  friends 
recall  an  incident  that  when  he  was  a  boy  in  St.  Paul,  Minnesota,  and  worked 
as  a  devil  in  a  printing  establishment,  he  showed  an  extraordinary  ability  at 
feeding  a  printing  press  at  a  rate  of  speed  and  precision  unknown  in  that  shop. 
He  was  feeding  the  press  rapidly  because  that  was  his  way  of  expressing  his 
character  and  his  energy,  and  not  merely  for  the  sake  of  promoting  himself 
higher  on  the  pay  roll.  His  enthusiasm  was  not  shared  by  his  fellow  work- 
men and  did  not  become  contagious,  since  one  night  a  burly  Irishman  met  him 
outside  the  shop  and  warned  him  that  he  must  slow  down  in  his  speed  and  be 
satisfied  with  producing  only  the  normal  output  agreed  upon  by  his  fellow 
employes.  He  was  not  convinced  then  nor  since  that  this  was  a  sound  princi- 
ple for  either  the  individual  or  an  organization  of  labor,  and  rather  than  con- 
form, he  just  naturally  discharged  himself,  and  has  been  more  or  less  an  active 
opponent  of  union  labor  to  this  day,  particularly  so  far  as  the  unions  counte- 
nance and  uphold  a  practice  of  holding  back  the  individual  desire  to  do  one's 
best.  However,  this  is  only  incidental  to  his  main  career,  and  is  mentioned  here 
largely  for  the  light  it  throws  on  Mr.  Jenkins'  working  ambition. 

He  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  June  11,  1869,  son  of  George  Spratt  and 
Marietta  (Carrell)  Jenkins.  His  paternal  ancestors  were  Welsh  Quakers.  His 
grandfather,  David  Hall  Jenkins,  was  born  June  9,  1812,  at  Philadelphia,  while 
his  w;fe  was  born  in  Monmouth,  New  Jersey,  in  April,  1812.  On  his  father's 
side  Mr.  Jenkins  is  a  great-great-grandson  of  John  Chapman,  who  served  as  a 
p  vate  soldier  in  Capt.  William  Price's  company  with  the  Chester  County 
.nnsylvania  Militia  in  1777.  There  were  seven  Jenkinses  who  were  ministers 
of  the  gospel.  The  family  history  goes  back  to  1667  to  Morgan  Rhydderch,  an 
old  chieftain,  who  was  a  grandson  of  Griffith  Ap  Griffith,  of  the  time  of  Queen 
Elizabeth. 

George  Spratt  Jenkins  was  born  in  Covington,  Pennsylvania,  February  12, 
1844,  and  died  at  Los  Angeles  June  26,  1918,  at  the  age  of  seventy-four.  Dur- 
ing the  Civil  war  he  was  with  a  Pennsylvania  regiment  for  four  years  and  six 
months,  being  a  lieutenant  when  mustered  out.  He  was  retained  in  service  a 
number  of  months  after  the  close  of  the  war.  By  profession  he  was  an  expert 
accountant.  He  had  lived  in  Los  Angeles  about  twelve  years.  His  wife  was 
born  in  New  York  City  August  1,  1850,  of  English  ancestry.  She  died  at  Pitts- 
burgh, Pennsylvania,  in  1896.    John  Joseph  is  the  only  one  now  living  of  five 

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children,  two  of  whom  died  in  infancy.  There  were  also  two  daughters,  one  of 
whom  was  Gertrude  Thompson  Jenkins,  named  after  the  Long  Island  family  of 
Thompsons.   She  died  at  Spokane,  Washington,  in  1914. 

John  Joseph  Jenkins  has  been  earning  his  own  way  since  he  was  eleven 
years  old.  In  the  summer  of  1881,  when  President  Garfield  was  shot,  young 
Jenkins  was  selling  newspapers  on  the  streets  of  Philadelphia.  He  continued  to 
live  in  Philadelphia  until  he  was  thirteen  years  of  age,  attending  the  common 
schools  as  opportunity  offered.  From  there  he  went  to  St.  Paul,  Minnesota, 
working  for  a  time  in  a  cracker  and  candy  factory,  then  in  a  wholesale  sta- 
tionery and  drug  house,  and  afterwards  started  to  learn  the  printer's  trade,  with 
results  which  have  already  been  noted.  He  made  many  friends  in  St.  Paul, 
especially  among  the  French  Canadians  there.  He  had  some  part  in  city  politics. 
Later  he  became  associated  with  the  St.  Paul  Title  Insurance  Company.  Its 
general  superintendent  sent  him  to  Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania,  to  lay  the  founda- 
tion for  a  title  insurance  company  in  that  state  and  city.  He  laid  that  founda- 
tion, though  at  the  same  time  he  was  in  competition  with  a  million  and  a  half 
dollar  corporation.  He  formed  an  abstract  company  called  the  Bissell,  Millard 
&  Jenkins  Abstract  Company.  Later  Mr.  Millard  left  to  become  secretary  of  a 
big  business  organization  in  Chicago.  Mr.  Jenkins  had  most  of  the  business 
responsibility  for  carrying  out  the  plans  of  his  aged  associate,  Colonel  Bissell, 
who  soon  afterwards  died,  leaving  the  affair  incomplete.  The  business  was  a 
long  cherished  ambition  of  Colonel  Bissell,  and  in  order  to  complete  it,  Mr. 
Jenkins  organized  what  was  known  as  the  Lawyers  Title  Abstract  Company,  all 
the  stock  being  sold  to  lawyers.  Mr.  Jenkins  personally  took  upon  himself  the 
matter  of  selling  the  stock,  though  without  experience  in  that  line.  The  first 
lawyer  he  approached  on  the  subject  was  Philander  Knox,  known  in  American 
history  as  secretary  of  state  and  now  United  States  senator  from  Pennsylvania. 
Mr.  Knox  not  only  took  a  kindly  interest  in  the  young  stock  salesman,  giving 
him  a  great  deal  of  good  advice,  but  placed  his  own  name  on  the  top  line  of  the 
stock  subscribers.  In  about  two  years  after  the  death  of  Colonel  Bissell,  Mr. 
Jenkins  had  the  company  well  organized  and  was  its  general  manager.  At 
that  point  his  health  broke  down,  and  he  had  to  retire.  In  the  meantime  he 
had  read  a  great  deal  of  title  law  and  had  almost  a  lawyer's  knowledge  of  this 
subject. 

In  the  meantime,  while  making  a  trip  for  Colonel  Bissell,  Mr.  Jenkins' 
fertile  mind  had  conceived  the  idea  of  a  service  whereby  a  man's  suit  might  be 
taken  care  of  in  the  same  way  that  his  shirts  were  handled  by  laundries.  The 
idea  itself  was  original  and  the  execution  of  it  was  big  and  important  under 
the  directing  genius  of  Mr.  Jenkins.  He  formed  the  Enterprise  Pressing  Com- 
pany at  Pittsburgh,  and  built  up  the  industry  to  most  promising  proportions. 
Five  years  later  his  health  again  broke  down  and  he  sold  out  and  in  1899  came 
to  Los  Angeles,  expecting  to  see  California  and  die,  but  found  so  much  inspira- 
ton,  as  well  as  health,  in  the  "West  that  he  determined  to  remain  and  live. 

In  1899  Mr.  Jenkins  bought  a  half  interest  in  a  small  plant,  which  prop- 
erly speaking  could  not  be  considered  even  the  corner  stone  or  any  part  of  the 
foundation  of  the  present  magnificent  establishment  known  as  the  City  Dye 
Works  and  Laundry  Company.  The  plant  had  a  one-horse  wagon  for  delivery, 
employed  six  persons,  and  its  boiler  was  capable  of  carrying  only  five  pounds 
of  steam.  This  little  shop  was  at  345  South  Broadway.  Without  considering 
the  subsequent  history  of  twenty  years'  steady  growth  and  expansion,  it  is  suf- 
ficient to  say  that  the  City  Dye  Works,  of  which  Mr.  Jenkins  is  president  and 
manager,  is  now  a  big  plant,  with  branch  stores  at  Los  Angeles,  Long  Beach, 
Pasadena  and  Ocean  Park,  and  altogether  employs  300  persons.  The  main  plant 
itself  covers  four  acres,  located  at  3000  Central  Avenue,  between  Twenty-ninth 
and  Thirty-second  streets.  The  concern  maintains  forty  automobile  delivery 
wagons  and  has  one  of  the  largest  if  not  the  largest  private  garage  in  the  city. 
The  National  Association  of  Cleaners  and  Dyers  has  called  this  one  of  the  model 


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establishments  of  the  kind  in  the  United  States.  It  is  a  big  industry,  divided 
into  many  departments,  there  being  a  special  organization  and  department  for 
gloves,  garments,  blankets  and  laces,  carpets,  hats,  ostrich  feathers. 

Mr.  Jenkins  was  one  of  the  two  original  Southern  California  good  roads 
boosters.  Together  with  Robert  C.  Lennie,  long  since  deceased,  he  built  the 
first  bicycle  path  from  Los  Angeles  to  Santa  Monica  out  of  a  fund  raised  through 
the  sale  of  good  roads  buttons  to  the  bicycle  riders  of  that  period.  This  well- 
constructed  six-foot  roadway  was  the  object  lesson  that  awakened  the  public 
to  the  idea  of  improved  highways,  which  has  since  resulted  in  our  splendid 
system  of  boulevards.  Mr.  Jenkins  was  also  secretary  of  the  Ocean-to-Ocean 
Highway  Association  and  a  member  of  the  executive  committee  who  laid  out 
the  auto  road  through  the  Salton  Desert  in  Imperial  Valley  and  demonstrated  the 
practicability  of  constructing  a  highway  through  what  was  formerly  an  im- 
passable desert  waste  to  automobiles. 

More  recently  Mr.  Jenkins  was  the  man  behind  an  entirely  new  and  unique 
organization  of  the  Pacific  Coast,  a  commercial  yarn  dyeing  establishment  known 
as  the  Jenkins-Wright  Company,  Ltd.,  yarn  dyers  and  bleachers.  This  is  the 
only  establishment  of  its  kind  on  the  coast,  and  handles  practically  all  the  com- 
mercial work  in  that  line  between  San  Diego  and  Seattle.  At  the  present  writ- 
ing improvements  are  under  way  for  the  purpose  of  doubling  the  size  of  the 
yarn  dyeing  plant  until  it  will  have  a  capacity  for  10,000  pounds  of  worsted  and 
10,000  pounds  of  cotton  yarn  per  week.  There  will  also  be  a  fireproof  storage 
with  a  capacity  of  500,000  pounds  of  yarn. 

As  this  brief  article  has  endeavored  to  show,  Mr.  Jenkins  has  had  an 
interesting  career  and  has  an  interesting  individuality.  His  personal  charac- 
ter is  appreciated  by  his  many  friends  and  associates  in  the  various  bodies  of 
York  Rite  Masonry  and  the  Shrine,  the  Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks, 
the  Jonathan  Club,  Brentwood  Country  Club,  Wilshire  Country  Club,  Los 
Angeles  Athletic  Club,  Automobile  Club  of  Southern  California,  Los  Angeles 
Chamber  of  Commerce,  Merchants'  and  Manufacturers'  Association,  and  the 
South  Coast  Yacht  Club,  of  which  he  was  one  of  the  first  commodores.  He  is 
a  member  of  the  Chemist  Club  of  New  York,  belongs  to  the  Sons  of  the  Amer- 
ican Revolution,  and  for  five  years  while  living  at  Pittsburgh  was  a  member  of 
the  Naval  Reserve  and  rose  to  the  grade  of  junior  lieutenant.  He  was  on  the 
old  battleship  Maine  the  year  before  it  was  blown  up  in  Havana  harbor. 
Politically  he  is  a  republican. 

October  6,  1896,  at  Pittsburgh,  Mr.  Jenkins  married  Miss  Hilda  B.  Lowry 
of  that  city,  the  daughter  of  the  late  Washington  Lowry,  who  at  one  time  was 
mayor  of  East  Liberty,  Pennsylvania,  and  became  prominent  in  Pittsburgh. 
Mrs.  Jenkins  was  born  and  educated  at  Pittsburgh. 


gilbert  Sxel  Ccfeatrom 


LBERT  AXEL  ECKSTROM,  who  was  one  of  the  founders  and 
for  many  years  vice  president  of  the  California  Furniture 
Company  of  Los  Angeles,  was  a  native  son  of  California,  and 
his  life,  though  terminated  at  the  end  of  sixty  years,  was  a 
complete  exemplification  of  the  dignity  of  labor,  the  beauty 
of  friendship,  and  all  the  fruits  that  flow  from  sincerity  and 
integrity  of  character. 

He  was  born  at  Stockton,  California,  March  25,  1859,  a 
son  of  Thomas  and  Elizabeth  (Stuart)  Eckstrom.  His  father  was  a  native  of 
Stockholm,  Sweden,  and  came  directly  to  California  around  the  Horn  to  San 
Francisco.  While  at  Stockton  he  met  Miss  Elizabeth  Stuart.  She  was  a  direct 
descendant  of  the  Stuarts  of  Scotland,  where  she  was  born.  As  a  girl  she 
came  to  Stockton  by  way  of  the  Isthmus  to  visit  a  married  sister,  and  in  this 
sister's  home  she  married  Mr.  Eckstrom.  They  were  the  parents  of  a  large 
family,  the  late  Albert  A.  being  the  second  son. 

He  acquired  his  early  education  in  the  schools  of  Stockton  and  later 
attended  the  Franciscan  College  at  Santa  Barbara.  He  served  an  apprentice- 
ship at  the  upholstery  trade  at  San  Francisco.  On  returning  to  Stockton  he 
engaged  in  business  for  himself  before  he  was  twenty-one  years  of  age.  Not 
long  afterward  he  sold  out  and  went  back  to  San  Francisco,  where  he  married 
Daisy  E.  L.  Webb  of  that  city,  a  member  of  another  pioneer  California  family. 
Her  father,  John  M.  Webb,  was  born  in  England  in  1806,  and  came  to  New 
York  when  very  young.  He  was  a  California  forty-niner,  and  after  a  few 
years  in  the  mines  around  Sacramento  took  up  his  residence  in  Oakland.  Dur- 
ing the  early  sixties  he  became  permanently  blind.  During  the  years  of  afflic- 
tion that  followed  he  was  constantly  and  lovingly  attended  by  his  daughter,  Mrs. 
Eckstrom.  Mr.  Webb  had  a  poetic  soul,  and  when  so  many  of  his  activities  were 
terminated  by  blindness,  he  expressed  himself  through  the  avenue  of  poetry  that 
might  well  enjoy  a  high  rank  with  that  of  other  California  poets.  All  of  his  work 
is  still  in  manuscript  and  is  carefully  preserved  by  Mrs.  Eckstrom,  who  dur- 
ing her  father's  affliction  copied  the  verses  as  he  recited  them.  He  wrote  many 
poems  relating  to  his  journey  to  California  by  water,  to  the  Civil  war  period, 
and  to  historic  places  in  his  state.  He  died  in  San  Francisco  in  1884,  at  the 
age  of  seventy-eight. 

Daisy  Webb  attended  the  public  schools  of  San  Francisco  and  was  grad- 
uated from  the  high  school  of  that  city.  She  and  Mr.  Eckstrom  were  mar- 
ried when  she  was  twenty  years  of  age.  On  her  eighteenth  birthday  she  was 
a  guest  at  the  home  of  a  girl  friend  also  celebrating  her  eighteenth  anniver- 
sary, and  on  that  occasion  she  met  Albert  Eckstrom  the  first  time. 

After  their  marriage  they  removed  to  Seattle,  Washington,  and  during 
the  year  and  a  half  of  their  residence  in  that  city  their  first  daughter  was  born. 
On  January  1,  1882,  they  established  their  home  at  Los  Angeles,  where  Mr. 
Eckstrom  was  employed  by  the  old  Los  Angeles  Furniture  Company.  Later 
he  entered  the  wall  paper  business  with  two  associates,  under  the  firm  name  of 
Marsh-Eckstrom-Strasburg.  Their  first  location  was  on  Main,  nefar  Third 
Street,  and  later  Mr.  Eckstrom  removed  to  Spring,  between  Third  and  Fourth 

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streets,  and  was  in  business  for  himself.  As  noted  above,  he  was  a  founder  and 
for  fifteen  years  was  vice  president  of  the  California  Furniture  Company,  do- 
ing business  at  644  South  Broadway. 

He  was  active  in  business,  civic  and  other  affairs  practically  to  the  end 
of  his  life.  He  died  July  22,  1919,  following  an  operation  for  appendicitis. 
Mr.  Eckstrom  was  a  member  of  the  draft  board  from  the  beginning  of  the 
war  until  its  close.  He  was  well  known  fraternally,  being  affiliated  with  the 
Elks,  Masons,  the  Mystic  Shrine,  and  at  one  time  was  a  charter  member  of  a 
lodge  of  Knights  of  Pythias.  However,  he  was  best  known  and  he  took  the 
deepest  interest  in  the  Native  Sons  of  the  Golden  West.  He  possessed  a 
beautiful  loving  cup  presented  him  by  the  Native  Sons  as  a  token  of  love  and 
deep  gratitude  for  valuable  services  rendered  during  the  San  Francisco  earth- 
quake and  fire.  His  ashes  are  now  contained  in  the  loving  cup  and  occupy  a 
niche  in  the  columbarium  of  Forest  Lawn  Cemetery.  He  was  a  republican  in 
politics.  His  funeral  services  were  conducted  by  Ramona  Parlor  of  the  Native 
Sons.  What  his  personality  meant  to  many  members  of  Ramona  Parlor  and 
other  friends  and  associates  was  well  protrayed  in  a  memorial  tribute  paid 
him  by  the  grand  second  vice  president  of  the  Native  Sons.  From  this  tribute 
the  following  paragraphs  are  appropriately  quoted: 

"He  was  intimately  known  as  'Al.'  'Al'  Eckstrom 's  life  must  not  be 
spoken  of  in  platitudes.  All  the  vast  philosophies  of  life  for  him  were  molded 
into  the  simple  text  of  the  Golden  Rule:  'Do  unto  others  as  you  would  have 
others  do  unto  you.' 

"His  friendship  was  a  matter  of  your  choosing;  the  only  qualification  he 
demanded  was  that  you  be  trustworthy.  He  disliked  equivocation  and  did  not 
equivocate.  He  despised  the  petty  falsities  of  life.  When  his  confidence  was 
gained,  he  was  your  friend.  In  that  friendship  he  was  ever  ready  to  respond 
to  the  call  for  aid  and  to  render  such  assistance  as  was  in  his  power.  His 
friendship  was  a  jewel  to  treastire.  In  response  to  his  ideals  of  friendship  he 
was  strong  in  his  attachments,  constant  in  his  purpose,  and  faithful  to  his 
fellowmen. 

' '  He  believed  that  life  should  not  be  a  mere  conflict  and  trial  of  strength,  but 
that  it  should  be  a  vast  field  of  industry  where  the  achievements  of  all  should 
commingle  for  the  common  good.  He  was  industrious,  self-sacrificing  and  hon- 
est. His  life  was  governed  by  the  traditions  of  industry,  hardihood  and  simple 
honesty  of  the  pioneers  from  whom  he  sprang.  He  was  loyal  to  his  country, 
to  his  state  and  to  his  friends." 

Three  children  were  born  to  their  marriage,  all  daughters.  The  oldest 
died  at  the  age  of  five  years.  The  second  daughter  is  Mrs.  Edward  Woodbury 
of  Los  Angeles.  Edward  Woodbury  is  the  oldest  son  of  Professor  Woodbury, 
who  founded  the  first  business  college  in  Los  Angeles.  The  youngest  daugh- 
ter is  Mrs.  Etelka  Skinner  of  Stockton,  California.  The  Eckstrom  home  was 
at  1844  North  Vine,  a  beautiful  Italian  villa,  one  of  the  show  places  of  Holly- 
wood, with  sunken  gardens  and  wealth  of  flowers  and  shrubs. 


George  3ra  Cocfjran 


HILE  he  began  his  career  as  a  young  lawyer  in  Los  Angeles 
thirty  years  ago,  and  was  identified  with  a  busy  law  practice 
for  nearly  two  decades,  it  is  as  a  manager  and  director  of 
large  financial  and  business  corporations  that  George  Ira 
Cochran  is  best  known. 

In  him  have  been  developed  and  have  come  to  fruitage 
many  fine  traits  and  qualities  inherited  from  his  ancestry. 
His  father,  Rev.  George  Cochran,  D.  D.,  was  a  prominent 
Methodist  minister  and  missionary.  Mr.  Cochran's  mother,  Catherine  Lynch 
Davidson,  was  a  descendant  of  the  Wesleys,  founders  of  Methodism. 

George  Ira  Cochran  was  born  at  Oshawa,  Ontario,  Canada,  July  1,  1863. 
When  he  was  seven  years  old  his  father  went  to  Japan,  and  lived  in  the  Orient 
engaged  in  missionary  and  other  church  work  for  six  years.  While  at  Tokyo 
George  Ira  Cochran  attended  private  schools.  After  his  father  returned  to 
Toronto  he  completed  his  education  in  the  Collegiate  Institute  and  the  Univer- 
sity of  Toronto,  and  studied  law  in  Osgood  Hall.  He  was  admitted  as  Barrister 
at  Law  shortly  after  his  graduation,  and  in  1888  came  to  Los  Angeles  and  was 
admitted  to  practice  in  the  Supreme  Court  of  California  in  February  of  that 
year.    Mr.  Cochran  practiced  law  until  1906. 

Since  then  the  responsibilities  of  many  business  organizations  have  claimed 
practically  all  his  attention.  In  1906  he  became  president  of  the  Pacific  Mutual 
Life  Insurance  Company,  one  of  the  oldest  and  largest  insurance  organizations 
in  the  west.  The  Pacific  Mutual  is  today  listed  among  the  foremost  old  line 
American  companies,  and  its  business  has  been  extended  practically  across  the 
Continent.  Mr.  Cochran  has  supervised  and  directed  the  investment  of  millions 
of  dollars  of  this  company's  assets,  and  to  a  large  degree  has  been  responsible 
for  the  enviable  record  the  company  has  made. 

Many  other  organizations  claim  some  share  of  his  ability  and  time.  He  is 
a  director  of  the  Southern  California  Edison  Company,  Los  Angeles  Trust  & 
Savings  Bank,  Rosedale  Cemetery  Association,  Home  Fire  &  Marine  Company, 
and  Anglo  California  Trust  Company  of  San  Francisco,  Citizens  Trust  &  Savings 
Bank,  Seaside  Water  Company,  Long  Beach  Bath  House  and  Amusement  Com- 
pany, California  Delta  Farms,  Incorporated,  and  many  others.  Mr.  Cochran  is  a 
regent  of  the  University  of  California  and  a  trustee  of  the  University  of  South- 
ern California.  He  served  as  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  City  Charter  Com- 
mission of  1893.  He  has  served  as  a  member  of  the  Republican  County  Central 
Committee,  as  a  trustee  of  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association,  and  is  a 
member  of  the  California,  Jonathan,  University,  Los  Angeles  Athletic,  Midwick 
Country,  Los  Angeles  Country  and  Union  League  clubs,  and  the  Pacific  Union 
and  Bohemian  clubs  of  San  Francisco.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Methodist 
Church. 

August  6,  1890,  Mr.  Cochran  married  Miss  Alice  Maud  McClung  of  Canada. 
April  7,  1907,  he  married  for  his  second  wife  her  sister,  Isabelle  May  McClung. 


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N  THESE  modern  days  when,  there  are,  unfortunately,  so  many 
individuals  who  prove  unworthy  to  the  trust  reposed  in  them, 
it  is  gratifying  to  review  the  career  of  one  who  always  kept  his 
life  free  from  contaminating  influences,  no  matter  what  his 
surroundings,  and  was  fearless  in  his  support  of  what  he 
deemed  was  right.  Unfortunately  for  his  community  the  late 
Gail  Borden  Johnson,  of  Los  Angeles,  was  never  called  to 
high  office  in  the  public  service.  Had  he  been  given  the  op- 
portunity to  bring  to  bear  upon  the  administration  of  civic  affairs  his  keen 
conviction  of  justice  and  high  moral  sense,  those  coming  under  his  influence 
would  have  benefited  and  politics  would  have  been  purified.  However,  the 
life  of  such  a  man  is  never  lived  in  vain.  Although  his  sphere  was  largely 
confined  to  the  field  of  life  insurance,  he  did  his  full  duty  and  gave  his  world 
a  saner,  cleaner  viewpoint. 

Gail  Borden  Johnson  was  born  near  Richmond,  Texas,  the  eldest  of  six 
children,  November  11,  1859.  He  is  survived  by  his  aged  father,  the  other 
children,  his  widow  and  three  daughters.  In  young  manhood  he  removed  to 
Houston,  Texas,  where  in  1878  he  became  the  founder  of  the  Houston  Post, 
and  published  that  paper  for  several  years.  Subsequently  he  removed  to  Elgin, 
Illinois,  where  he  became  secretary  of  the  Illinois  Condensing  Company,  now 
known  as  the  Borden  Condensed  Milk  Company.  Gail  Borden,  who  invented 
the  process  of  condensing  milk  and  was  the  founder  of  the  company  which 
has  made  this  product  known  the  world  over,  was  his  maternal  grandfather 
and  gave  him  his  name.  Mr.  Johnson  first  came  to  California  in  1888,  and  for 
a  number  of  years  was  engaged  very  successfully  in  the  real  estate  and  build- 
ing business  at  Los  Angeles.  In  1900  he  became  vice-president  of  the  Ger- 
man-American Savings  Bank,  now  the  Guaranty  Trust  and  Savings  Bank, 
which  position  he  resigned  when  he  became  vice-president  and  treasurer  of  the 
Pacific  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company  in  1906. 

During  the  last  twelve  years  of  his  life  Mr.  Johnson  labored  most  assidu- 
ously and  with  great  ability  in  and  for  his  company.  He  was  wrapped  up 
in  its  work  and  took  the  greatest  pleasure  therein.  When  President  George  I. 
Cochran  took  in  hand  the  consolidation  of  the  Conservative  Life  Insurance 
Company  and  the  Pacific  Life  Insurance  Company  and  the  reorganization  of 
the  enlarged  company  in  1906,  Mr.  Johnson  was  closely  associated  with  him. 
Together  they  assumed  the  responsibility  involved,  and  made  and  put  through 
all  the  necessary  plans  for  the  successful  consummation  of  the  undertaking. 
Neither  one  aspired  to  the  presidency,  and  while  only  one  could  be  president  of 
the  company  in  a  very  real  sense  the  Pacific  Mutual  had  two  heads.  The 
perfect  harmony  in  which  these  two  leaders  worked  together  was  of  the  great- 
est benefit  to  the  institution,  and  it  is  doubtful  if  a  parallel  can  be  found  in 
the  history  of  life  insurance  where  two  men  of  such  decided  individuality, 
strong  convictions  and  marked  ability  have  together  headed  a  corporation 
and  worked  in  such  perfect  concord. 

The  one  department  to  which  Mr.  Johnson  gave  special  attention  was 
the  agency  department.    While  he  never  assumed  the  title,  he  was  superin- 

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tendent  of  agencies,  and  in  this  office  came  into  direct  contact  with  the  men 
in  the  field.  How  well  he  discharged  the  duties  of  his  office  the  field  men 
well  know.  He  had  a  keen  sense  of  justice,  and  when  he  felt  that  he  was  in 
the  right  exemplified  the  courage  of  his  own  convictions  by  refusing  to  be  dis- 
lodged from  any  position  which  he  took.  As  a  good  executive  he  never  lost 
sight  of  the  interests  of  the  company,  yet  also  he  never  forgot  the  best  inter- 
ests of  the  agents  and  was  always  thinking  and  planning  for  their  good.  He 
injected  such  a  wholesome  spirit  into  all  that  he  did  that  business  delibera- 
tions between  man  and  man  seemed  rather  the  kindly  dealings  between  friend 
and  friend.  This  was  always  evidenced  at  the  home  office,  where  he  kept  in 
close  touch  with  much  of  the  detail  of  the  life  business,  as  affecting  the  agents 
and  agency  matters.  He  was  continually  sought  in  consultation  and  his  careful 
attention  was  given  to  matters  of  seemingly  trifling  importance  as  readily  as  to 
those  of  the  gravest  concern.  His  office  was  always  open  to  anyone  who  sought 
his  advice  and  his  cordial  greeting  and  kindly  manner  made  all  feel  at  home 
in  his  presence.  In  all  his  bearing  he  was  more  an  intimate  friend,  a  big- 
hearted  brother,  than  a  head  executive  of  the  company. 

Mr.  Johnson's  years  of  successful  experience  in  the  real  estate  and  bank- 
ing business  gave  him  a  peculiar  fitness  for  assisting  in  the  management  of  the 
financial  interest  and  investments  of  the  company,  to  which  he  gave  a  good  deal 
of  attention.  He  was  a  wise  and  safe  counselor  and  his  judgment  was  valued 
highly  by  the  other  executives  of  the  company.  He  made  the  appraisements 
and  placed  the  company's  loans  in  certain  sections,  particularly  in  his  native 
state  of  Texas.  As  an  evidence  of  his  ability  and  good  judgment  in  that 
connection,  of  the  several  millions  of  dollars  invested  by  him  in  Texas  not  a 
single  loan  gave  the  company  any  trouble. 

While  primarily  and  distinctively  a  business  man,  Mr.  Johnson  had 
literary  gifts  of  no  mean  character,  his  work  in  this  connection  being  prin- 
cipally done  in  adding  to  the  literature  of  the  company  with  which  he  was 
identified.  An  indication  of  his  gifts  in  this  direction  may  be  presented  as 
an  example:  "Building  the  Pacific  Mutual.  Out  of  a  vision  of  usefulness 
came  the  Pacific  Mutual  fifty  years  ago.  High  ideals  caused  those  great  men 
to  lay  the  foundation  deep  and  strong — befitting  the  superstructure  which 
was  to  stand  for  all  time, — a  tower  of  strength, — protecting  fortress  for  com- 
ing generations.  A  building,  even  the  most  stately  cathedral,  can  be  completely 
finished,  every  arch  and  column  architecturally  perfect,  but  ours  is  a  building 
that  is  never  finished, — a  building  not  made  with  hands.  Each  successive 
management  must  add  its  stone — a  stone  cut  from  the  quarry  of  service  and 
polished  with  aspiration  toward  perfection.  Twelve  years  ago  the  present 
management  was  called  to  that  quarry  and  at  once  determined  to  serve  its  gen- 
eration well  and  faithfully.  Our  ambition  is  that  others  who  come  after  us, 
when  they  look  at  the  stone  we  leave,  may  find  that  it  squares  with :  A  pro- 
found sense  of  responsibility,  reaching  not  only  to  policy  holders,  but  to  agents, 
employes  and  the  public ;  an  effort  to  give  the  greatest  amount  of  protection 
for  the  least  amount  of  money ;  only  a  few  rules,  with  insistence  upon  those 
few,  including  the  one  called  Golden ;  honesty,  courtesy,  efficiency,  with  a  sin- 
cere desire  to  serve ;  hearty  approval  of  state  supervision ;  loyalty  to  our  country 
and  its  laws." 

The  following  Resolutions,  adopted  by  Mr.  Johnson  and  exemplified  by 
him  in  his  everyday  life,  strike  one  of  the  strong1  notes  of  his  character:  "This 
day  shall  be  my  best  if  honest  effort  will  make  it  so.  I  expect  to  meet  disap- 
pointment, annoyances  and  possibly  rebuffs,  but  I  shall  try  to  look  upon  all 
hindrances  as  a  part  of  the  day's  work,  put  there  to  be  overcome.  I  expect 
also  to  meet  success,  because  I  am  out  after  it.  I  shall  be  cheerful,  earnest 
and  persevering,  honestly  representing  Pacific  Mutual  policies  to  men  who  need 
them.    Whatever  may  be  the  result  of  this  day's  work  I  shall  seek  my  bed  at 


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night  with  the  consciousness  that  not  one  hour  was  wasted  and  that  I  did  the 
best  I  could." 

Mr.  Johnson's  work  was  of  a  nature  that  kept  him  busily  engaged,  yet  he 
always  found  time  to  assist  in  outside  interests.  He  was  for  more  than  twenty 
years  a  trustee  of  the  University  of  Southern  California,  an  advisory  director 
of  the  Young  Women's  Christian  Association  of  Los  Angeles  from  its  organiza- 
tion, a  trustee  of  the  McKinlej^  Boy's  Home,  a  director  in  several  banks,  a 
member  of  the  Capital  Issues  Committee  of  the  Twelfth  Federal  District,  and 
actively  connected  with  various  other  organizations  and  interests.  While  al- 
ways willing  to  do  his  full  share  in  every  worthy  form  of  work  where  he  could 
assist,  he  never  sought  office  and  was  too  modest  to  aspire  to  numerous  other 
high  offices  easily  within  his  reach.  He  was  a  great  lover  of  his  home  and 
the  family  circle,  and  was  not  a  clubman  in  the  sense  that  some  men  are,  yet  he 
enjoyed  the  companionship  of  his  fellows  and  held  membership  in  several  lead- 
ing clubs,  including  the  California  Club,  Midwick  Country  Club  and  the  Bolsa 
Chica  Gun  Club,  which  are  located  at  or  near  Los  Angeles,  and  the  Bohemian 
Club  of  San  Francisco.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Methodist  Church,  in  which 
he  did  much  work  during  his  life  and  to  which  he  gave  his  liberal  support. 
His  benefactions  were  numerous  and  totaled  a  large  sum,  but  were  always 
given  without  ostentation  and  were  usually  known  only  to  himself  and  the 
recipient. 

In  September,  1918,  Mr.  Johnson  went  to  New  York  City  to  attend  the 
annual  convention  of  the  National  Association  of  Life  Underwriters,  appar- 
ently in  the  best  of  health.  He  was  in  excellent  spirits  and  enthusiastic  in 
his  numerous  plans  for  the  agency  work  of  the  company,  and  looked  forward 
with  much  pleasure  to  his  trip  and  to  the  opportunity  to  associate  again  for 
a  few  days  with  many  of  the  Pacific  Mutual  agents,  who  were  always  close 
to  his  heart.  The  day  following  the  close  of  the  convention,  September  7, 
1918,  while  returning  to  his  hotel  from  breakfast,  he  was  seized  with  an  attack 
of  heart  trouble  and  expired  in  about  ten  minutes  without  regaining  conscious- 
ness. The  remains  were  brought  back  to  Los  Angeles  by  his  friends,  and 
funeral  services  were  held  at  the  home,  September  12,  interment  being  made 
at  San  Gabriel  Cemetery,  among  the  orange  groves  and  not  far  from  Alhanibra, 
where  Mr.  Johnson  once  resided.  On  the  day  of  the  funeral  the  following 
tribute  was  paid  to  Mr.  Johnson  in  an  editorial  which  appeared  in  the  Los 
Angeles  Daily  Times : 

"  '  The  time  demands  strong  minds,  great  hearts,  true  faith 

and  willing  hands.'  Of  these  was  Gail  B.  Johnson,  who  is  borne  to  his  last 
resting  place  today ;  and  it  is  difficult  for  those  who  knew  him  best  to  under- 
stand why  he  was  taken.  God's  over  all;  and  we  must  have  faith — and  we 
do — but  we  shall  miss  Gail  B.  Johnson.  We  shall  miss  him  in  the  work  the 
time  demands — miss  the  strong,  great-hearted,  willing,  kindly  man  of  the  hour, 
whose  ,ioy  it  was  to  be  of  service  to  his  fellows.  He  was  one  of  the  makers 
of  Los  Angeles  and  one  of  the  type  of  men  the  nation  relies  on  today  in  its 
period  of  stress.  He  was  honored  in  life  and  long  will  his  memory  be  an  in- 
spiration to  his  associates  and  friends.  The  good  he  has  done  will  surely  live 
after  him — that  is  the  message  the  last  rites  over  his  mortal  remains  will  convey 
to  those  who  pause  to  think  of  him  and  his  busy  life  today." 


Upman  Jf  rank  paum 


LTHOUGH  the  career  of  a  literary  or  professional  man  seldom 
exhibits  any  of  those  striking  incidents  that  seize  upon  public 
feelings  and  fix  attention  upon  himself,  the  late  Lyman  Prank 
Baum  proved  an  exception  to  the  rule.  From  maturity  until 
his  death  his  career  was  one  of  laborious  yet  enjoyable  and 
contented  literary  effort,  and  the  high  distinction  which  he 
attained  was  evidence  that  he  possessed  genius  of  an  extraor- 


dinary quality.  There  never  has  been  an  author  of  juvenile 
stories  who  attained  wider  popularity  among  children  or  who  found  his  way 
into  the  hearts  and  affections  of  readers  of  all  ages,  as  did  Mr.  Baum.  For, 
although  his  work  was  almost  exclusively  dedicated  to  children,  there  were  many 
of  more  mature  years  among  his  readers  who  found  keen  enjoyment  in  his 
delightful  whimsicalities,  which  enabled  them  to  live  over  again  their  own 
happy  childhood,  while  following  the  adventure  of  "The  Wonderful  "Wizard 
of  Oz"  and  his  many  mythical,  amusing  and  entertaining  associates. 

L.  Frank  Baum  was  born  at  Chittenango,  New  York,  May  15,  1856,  a  son 
of  Benjamin  Ward  and  Cynthia  (Stanton)  Baum.  His  father,  one  of  the 
earliest  oil  men,  owned  rich  possessions  in  the  Pennsylvania  fields,  and  both 
John  D.  Rockefeller  and  John  Archbold  were  at  one  time  in  his  employ. 
Mr.  Baum  received  an  academic  education  at  Syracuse,  New  York,  which  was 
later  supplemented  by  instruction  from  a  private  English  tutor. 

When  the  "Wizard  of  Oz  Man"  (as  he  was  for  many  years  affectionately 
called)  was  but  twelve  years  of  age,  his  father  presented  him  with  a  printing 
press,  upon  which,  for  some  time,  he  indulged  his  literary  tendencies  by  pub- 
lishing a  paper  known  as  "The  Roselawn  Home  Journal,"  "Roselawn"  being 
the  name  of  his  father's  estate  near  Syracuse.  His  first  public  writings  were 
in  the  line  of  newspaper  work  in  New  York,  Pennsylvania  and  Chicago.  From 
1888  to  1890  he  was  owner  and  editor  of  the  "Saturday  Pioneer,"  at  Aber- 
deen, South  Dakota,  and  from  1897  to  1902  he  owned  and  edited  "The  Show 
Window"  at  Chicago. 

Mr.  Baum  became  a  playwright  early  in  life,  his  "Maid  of  Arran"  having 
been  produced  in  New  York  in  1881.  In  the  following  year,  in  the  same  city, 
appeared  "Matches,"  wbioh  was  followed  in  1884  by  "Kilmorne,"  produced 
at  Syracuse;  in  1885  by  "The  Queen  of  Killarney,"  produced  at  Rochester;  in 
1902  by  "The  Wizard  of  Oz,"  produced  in  Chicago;  in  1905  by  "The  Woggle 
Bug,"  produced  in  Chicago;  in  1908  and  1909  by  the  "The  Radio  Play" 
(motion  pictures  of  Banm's  Fairv  Tales),  produced  at  Chicago  and  New  York, 
and  in  1913  by  "The  Tik  Tok  Man  of  Oz,"  produced  in  Los  Angeles. 

It  was  as  a  writer,  however,  more  than  as  a  playwright,  that  Mr.  Baum 
is  best  known.  For  more  than  twenty  vears  he  wrote  children's  and  other 
stories  for  various  magazines,  including  St.  Nicholas,  Youth's  Companion  and 
others.  The  possessor  of  a  rare  whimsical  style  that  was  of  preeminent  appeal 
to  children,  during  his  life  he  took  place  in  the  front  rank  of  writers  of  juvenile 
fiction.  His  first  published  book  was  "Mother  Goose  in  Prose,"  which  ap- 
peared in  1897,  and  the  drawings  for  this  story  wore  the  first  book  illustrations 
done  by  Maxfield  Parrish.    Its  success  encouraged  Mr.  Baum  to  further  effort, 

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and  the  next  work  to  appear  from  his  own  pen  was  "By  the  Candelabria's 
Glare,"  a  book  of  poems.  This  work  was  compiled  while  the  Baums  were  living 
in  Chicago.  He  installed  a  small  printing  press  in  his  home,  upon  which  he 
printed  the  book  entirely,  without  assistance,  and  each  one  of  a  coterie  of 
intimate  friends  contributed  to  the  manufacture  of  the  book,  donating  paper, 
ink,  book  ends  and  even  the  thread  used  in  binding.  Later  he  wrote  another 
decidedly  entertaining  volume,  "Tamawaca  Folks,"  woven  around  friends  sur- 
rounding his  family  at  a  Michigan  summer  resort.  This  was  followed  by 
"Father  Goose — His  Book,"  and  then  by  the  most  famous  of  all  his  works, 
"The  Wonderful  Wizard  of  Oz." 

He  married,  in  Fayettville,  New  York,  November  9,  1882,  Maud  Gage, 
whose  mother,  Matilda  Joslyn  Gage,  wrote  considerable  woman's  suffrage  lit- 
erature and  who  was  a  co-worker  with  Elizabeth  Cady  Stanton  and  Susan  B. 
Anthony  in  the  editing  of  "The  History  of  Woman's  Suffrage."  Four  sons 
were  born  of  this  union:  Frank  Joslyn,  who  served  in  France  as  an  officer  of 
Heavy  Artillery ;  Robert  Stanton,  an  officer  in  the  Engineer  Corps ;  Harry  Neal, 
a  resident  of  Chicago,  and  Kenneth  Gage  of  Los  Angeles.  It  was  while  these 
sons  were  still  lads  that  Mr.  Baum  conceived  the  idea  which  led  to  the  creation 
of  the  Oz  characters.  He  had  been  in  the  habit  of  telling  stories  to  his  children 
and  those  of  his  neighbors,  his  favorite  tales  being  fancifully  woven  around  a 
wonderful  cast-iron  man,  which  later  became  the  famous  Tin  Woodman  of  Oz. 
From  this  start  the  stories  grew  and  developed,  and  Mr.  Baum  occasionally 
wove  in  a  "scarecrow"  or  some  other  odd  character  as  his  prolific  fancy  dic- 
tated. These  stories  eventually  came  to  the  ears  of  his  friends,  who  urged  him 
to  place  them  into  connected  form  and  publish  them ;  and  thus  came  into  being 
the  famous  series  of  Oz  stories. 

"The  Wonderfiil  Wizard  of  Oz"  took  the  country,  as  represented  by  its 
juvenile  readers,  literally  by  storm.  It  was  followed  in  chronological  order 
bv  "A  New  Wonderland,"  "The  Songs  of  Father  Goose,"  "The  Armv  Alpha- 
bet," "The  Navy  Alphabet,"  "American  Fairy  Tales,"  "Dot  and  Tot  of 
Merryland,"  "The  Art  of  Decorating"  (a  technical  work  for  window  trim- 
mers), "The  Master  Key,"  "The  Life  and  Adventures  of  Santa  Claus,"  "The 
Enchanted  Island  of  Yew,"  "The  Magical  Monarch  of  MO,"  "The  Marvelous 
Land  of  Oz,"  "The  Woggle  Bug  Book,"  "Queen  Zixi  of  Ix,"  "Animal  Fairy 
Tales,"  "John  Dough  and  the  Cherub,"  "Ozma  of  Oz,"  "Dorothy  and  the 
Wizard,"  "Baum's  Fairy  Tales,"  "The  Road  to  Oz,"  "The  Emerald  City  of 
Oz,"  "Baum's  Juvenile  Speaker,"  "The  Sea  Fairies,"  "The  Daring  Twins," 
"Phoebe  Daring,  Conspirator,"  "Sky  Island,"  "Little  Wizard  Series,"  "Patch- 
work Girl  of  Oz."  "Baum's  Snuggle  Tales,"  "Tik  Tok  Man  of  Oz,"  "Scare- 
crow of  Oz,"  "Rinkitink  in  Oz,"  "Babes  in  Birdland,"  "The  Lost  Princess 
of  Oz,"  "The  Tin  Woodman  of  Oz"  and  "The  Magic  of  Oz."  Upon  his  death 
Mr.  Baum  left  some  completed  manuscripts  which  his  publishers  will  announce 
as  posthumous  works  for  the  future. 

During  his  career  Mr.  Baum  also  wrote  under  several  noms  de  plume  the 
"Mary  Louise"  books,  and  the  "Flying  Girl"  and  "Aunt  Jane  Nieces"  series 
under  the  name  of  "Edith  Van  Dyne,"  the  "Boy  Fortune  Hunters"  series 
under  the  name  of  "Floyd  Akers,"  the  "Sam  Steele"  series  under  the  name 
of  "Captain  Hugh  Fitzgerald,"  the  "Twinkle  Tales"  and  the  "Babes  in  Bird- 
land"  under  the  name  of  "Laura  Bancroft,"  and  various  other  books  under 
the  name  of  "Suzanne  Metcalf"  and  "Schuyler  Stanton."  He  left  a  book 
dedicated  to  each  one  of  his  children  and  grandchildren,  while  the  most  popular 
of  all  his  works,  the  "Wonderful  Wizard  of  Oz,"  is  dedicated  to  his  wife. 

Having  spent  many  winters  in  Southern  California,  about  1909,  Mr.  Baum 
decided  to  live  here  permanently  and  built  a  residence  at  1749  Cherokee  Avenue, 
Hollywood,  where  he  made  his  home.  "Ozcot,"  as  it  is  known,  is  one  of  the 
attractive  and  unique  dwellings  in  Hollywood,  surrounded  by  a  beautiful  gar- 
den in  which  Mr.  Baum  delighted  to  work.    He  became  known  as  the  amateur 


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king  of  chrysanthemums  of  Southern  California,  his  dahlias  and  chrysanthe- 
mums in  which  he  specialized,  having  taken  over  twenty  silver  cups  at  numerous 
flower  shows.  A  well  stocked  aviary  and  fish  pond,  both  of  which  Mr.  Baum 
built,  and  a  summer  house  in  which  many  of  the  Oz  books  were  written,  are  also 
in  this  enclosed  garden. 

While  living  at  Maeatawa,  on  Lake  Michigan,  he  owned  a  summer  home 
which  he  named  the  "Sign  of  the  Goose."  For  this  house  he  made  all  the 
furniture,  the  brads  used  in  the  manufacture  thereof  being  in  the  form  of 
brass  geese.  The  border  trimmings  in  the  rooms  were  stenciled  geese,  and  a 
large  glass  window  portrayed  an  immense  goose  in  colors. 

Mr.  Baum  was  a  man  who  was  conversant  with  many  subjects,  was  appre- 
ciative of  good  music  and  had  a  highly  developed  artistic  sense.  In  politics 
he  never  allowed  himself  to  be  bound  by  party  ties,  but  gave  his  vote  to  the 
candidate  whom  he  deemed  best  suited  for  the  office. 

His  social  connections  included  membership  in  the  Los  Angeles  Athletic 
Club,  and  the  Uplifters  of  Los  Angeles,  the  Chicago  Athletic  Association  and 
the  Players  Club  of  New  York.  After  having  suffered  severely  for  fifteen 
months  with  a  serious  illness,  Mr.  Baum  quietly  passed  to  his  final  rest  May 
6,  1919. 


Carl  Clemen*  Strassberger 


ARL  CLEMENS  STRASSBERGER,  who  died  at  his  Los 
Angeles  home,  630  Wilton  Place,  March  1,  1919,  had  been  a 
resident  of  Southern  California  several  years  but  had  lived 
very  quietly.  However,  Mr.  Strassberger  was  nationally  and 
internationally  known  in  the  world  of  music,  and  was  founder 
of  the  largest  conservatory  of  music  west  of  Chicago. 

He  was  born  in  Saxony  near  the  city  of  Dresden,  April 
24,  1859.  He  attended  school  at  Dresden,  and  as  a  small  boy 
evinced  passion  for  music.  He  was  never  able  to  remember  when  he  first  learned 
to  play  on  musical  instruments.  His  father  was  a  wealthy  brewer  and  seriously 
objected  to  his  son  pursuing  a  musical  career.  Nevertheless  the  persistence  and 
ambition  of  the  boy  triumphed  over  all  obstacles,  and  he  was  given  every 
advantage  at  the  Royal  Conservatory  of  Music  at  Dresden.  As  a  child  he  con- 
ducted a  boy's  band  and  all  his  play  and  work  and  pleasure  was  musical.  In 
Saxony  he  laid  the  foundation  for  the  wonderful  grasp  he  had  of  music  from 
every  angle,  as  composer,  producer,  teacher,  critic  and  patron. 

Coming  to  America  in  1881,  he  traveled  extensively  with  various  musical 
organizations,  and  in  1885  established  his  home  at  St.  Louis.  The  debt  of  that 
city  to  the  late  Mr.  Strassberger  is  a  lasting  one.  He  probably  did  more  than 
any  other  man  to  educate  St.  Louis  as  a  community  to  the  appreciation  of  good 
music.  At  the  beginning  he  worked  among  boys,  forming  a  band  of  sixty  mem- 
bers. He  had  them  so  well  trained  that  eventually  he  took  them  on  concert 
tours.    Later  he  was  director  of  a  full  orchestra,  of  some  sixty  odd  members. 

He  had  the  musical  genius,  also  the  gift  of  an  organizer,  and  what  is  per- 
haps most  rare  in  that  combination,  sound  business  ability.  He  established 
at  St.  Louis  the  Strassberger  Conservatory  of  Music,  which  from  the  first  has 
ranked  among  the  best  institutions  of  its  kind  in  America.  He  finally  en- 
larged it  to  three  branches,  and  it  became  the  largest  conservatory  west  of 
Chicago.  His  success  was  due  partly  to  the  fact  that  he  was  exceedingly  diligent 
in  searching  for  the  best  instructors.  He  made  many  trips  to  Europe  to  study 
methods  and  secure  assistants.  The  recitals  and  commencement  exercises  of 
the  Strassberger  Conservatory  were  among  the  musical  events  of  St.  Louis. 
A  true  patron  of  music,  a  successful  business  man,  he  was  inspired  by  generosity, 
and  when  he  recognized  real  talent  he  was  ever  ready  to  encourage  it  with  all 
the  facilities  at  his  command,  and  a  number  of  promising  pupils  received  their 
musical  education  from  him  free  of  charge.  He  was  also  liberal  in  behalf  of 
charitable  purposes,  giving  many  complete  concerts  and  furnishing  musical 
numbers  for  charitable  programs. 

On  February  8,  1888,  Mr.  Strassberger  married  Matilda  Heim,  a  daughter 
of  John  and  Gertrude  (Christen)  Heim,  of  St.  Louis.  Mrs.  Strassberger  pos- 
sessed a  soprano  voice  of  wonderful  beauty  and  did  much  to  make  her  hus- 
band's work  a  success,  and  a  great  deal  of  the  credit  was  due  her  ability  to 
direct  financially  and  otherwise  his  growing  business.  Both  always  took  a 
personal  interest  in  their  pupils.  Mrs.  Strassberger  frequently  sang  in  con- 
certs evenings  after  helping  in  the  Conservatory  during  the  day. 

Mr.  Strassberger  associated  with  him  in  his  conservatory  fifty  or  more 

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prominent  musicians  as  instructors.  Some  of  the  better  known  of  these  artists 
were  the  late  Dr.  Robert  Goldbeck;  Alfred  Ernst,  for  years  director  of  the 
St.  Louis  Symphony  Orchestra;  Guido  Parisi,  the  Italian  violin  soloist,  for- 
merly of  New  York ;  George  Buddeus ;  Charles  Galloway,  who  at  present  is  the 
leading  organist  in  St.  Louis;  Daniel  Jones,  Ellis  Levy  and  others. 

Mr.  Strassberger  composed  many  selections  of  band  music.  One,  "The 
Letter  Carriers  March,"  was  dedicated  to  the  Postmaster  of  St.  Louis,  his  per- 
sonal friend. 

In  the  midst  of  his  successful  work  about  twelve  years  ago  Mr.  Strass- 
berger 's  health  was  seriously  impaired  and  ended  in  a  paralytic  stroke.  After 
that  he  traveled  extensively  in  search  of  health,  and  spent  six  months  under 
the  care  of  specialists  in  Europe.  He  returned  much  improved  and  at  once 
plunged  enthusiastically  into  his  former  work.  Again  it  became  necessary  for 
him  to  go  abroad  and  recuperate.  The  outbreak  of  the  World  war  found 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Strassberger  in  Germany  and  they  were  in  Berlin  when  the 
Kaiser  delivered  his  speech  to  the  army.  Avoiding  the  rush  of  Americans  to 
leave  by  English  and  French  ports,  he  went  to  Italy  and  came  home  from 
that  country  direct  to  St.  Louis.  Soon  afterward  he  came  out  to  Los  Angeles 
and  impressed  with  the  beauty  and  climate  of  Southern  California  he  bought 
a  home  and  lived  there  quietly  until  his  recent  death.  The  present  director  of 
the  Conservatory  in  St.  Louis  is  his  Brother  Bruno  Strassberger.  Mr.  Strass- 
berger was  a  member  of  the  Apollo  Club,  the  St.  Louis  Symphony  Orchestra, 
the  American  Federation  of  Musicians,  and  a  member  of  the  Masonic  Order. 

Mrs.  Strassberger  survives  him,  and  also  two  daughters  and  two  grand- 
children. The  daughters  are  Mrs.  A.  J.  Barthels,  of  Los  Angeles,  and  Mrs.  C. 
A.  Wiederholdt  of  St.  Louis.  The  grandchildren  are  Alfred  and  Dorothy 
Wiederholdt. 


J5ite  3 acoton 


HEN  he  arrived  at  San  Bernardino,  California,  in  1887,  Nils 
Jacobson  was  twenty-two  years  of  age.  He  was  not  equipped 
at  once  to  take  a  prominent  part  in  California  affairs.  He 
had  youth,  but  no  capital,  had  been  in  America  only  about 
a  year,  had  some  knowledge  of  stock  raising  and  general 
farming,  but  his  best  resources  were  a  complete  integrity  of 
character,  good  health  and  a  steadfast  ambition. 

His  education  had  been  derived  from  the  grammar  school 
of  his  native  county  of  Villeje  in  the  town  of  Malmo,  Sweden,  where  he  was 
born  March  11,  1865.  His  parents  were  Jacob  Nelson  and  Boel  Janson,  Swedish 
farming  people,  thrifty,  frugal  and  people  who  impressed  their  sturdy  qualities 
upon  their  children. 

Nils  Jacobson  on  coming  to  America  first  located  at  Ottawa,  Illinois.  The 
first  twelve  years  he  spent  in  California  he  did  a  great  deal  of  hard  labor  in 
the  lumbering  district  in  the  San  Bernardino  mountains  and  in  the  Temescal 
tin  mines.  He  employed  his  native  intelligence  to  study  the  local  situation  and 
keep  himself  informed  of  opportunities. 

Mr.  Jacobson  during  the  last  twenty  years  has  been  one  of  the  men  most 
prominent  in  the  real  development  of  California's  lands  and  agricultural  and 
horticultural  wealth.  In  1896  he  moved  to  Highland,  where  he  made  his  first 
investment  in  a  seven  acre  ranch.  This  land  he  later  planted  to  oranges.  Sub- 
sequently he  acquired  a  tract  of  twenty-three  acres  of  full  bearing  oranges.  In 
1902  he  filed  on  a  desert  claim  of  three  hundred  twenty  acres  in  the  Mesquite 
Lake  District  in  Imperial  County.  Thus  he  was  one  of  the  pioneers  in  the 
development  of  that  magnificent  region,  which  has  been  the  marvel  of  the 
world.  The  following  year  he  moved  from  his  residence  at  East  Highland  to 
Imperial  County.  For  twelve  years  Mr.  Jacobson  gave  practically  all  his  time 
to  the  development  of  his  Imperial  holdings.  He  acquired  a  block  of  land 
consisting  of  1,040  acres,  used  for  stock  and  grain  farming.  Today  it  repre- 
sents one  of  the  finest  farms  in  the  heaviest  income  producing  property  in  that 
rich  valley.  In  1915  Mr.  Jacobson  acquired  an  orange  ranch  of  fifty-five  acres 
near  Downey,  and  is  living  there  at  the  present  time.  In  1917  he  acquired 
thirty-five  acres  more  land,  all  set  to  oranges  and  lemons,  located  just  west  of 
Rivera  in  Los  Angeles  County.  Mr.  Jacobson  disposed  of  all  his  holdings  con- 
sisting of  three  orange  groves  located  at  East  Highland,  in  1919,  and  during 
the  same  year  he  negotiated  an  exchange  of  his  Imperial  holdings  for  seventy 
acres  of  oranges  located  four  miles  west  of  Fullerton  in  Orange  County.  This 
property  is  reputed  to  be  one  of  the  finest  in  that  section  of  California.  At 
this  writing  Mr.  Jacobson 's  holdings  in  orange  groves  comprise  160  acres.  He 
was  also  a  director  of  the  Farmers  and  Merchants  Bank  of  Imperial. 

While  Mr.  Jacobson  is  a  republican  voter,  he  has  been  too  busy  with  his 
other  substantial  interests  to  enter  politics,  and  the  work  which  constitutes  his 
best  memorial  is  that  which  has  been  briefly  surveyed  above. 

At  Redlands,  California,  January  12,  1897,  Mr.  Jacobson  married  Miss 
Jennie  Marie  Holmquist.  She  was  born  in  Illinois,  from  which  state  her 
parents  moved  to  Kansas  where  her  father  was  a  pioneer  farmer,  and  also 
active  as  a  merchant  in  the  town  of  Assaria.  Both  her  parents  were  natives  of 
Sweden,  and  her  father  volunteered  in  1864  in  the  Union  army  during  the 
American  Civil  war. 

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H.  HAY  came  to  Los  Angeles  in  1880  and  almost  continuously 
from  that  year  to  the  present  has  been  engaged  in  the  real 
estate  business.  He  is  one  of  the  veterans  in  that  field,  and 
as  an  expert  in  subdivision  work  practically  has  no  superior 
in  the  state.  Again  and  again  he  has  exercised  a  rare  skill 
and  foresight  in  anticipating  development  and  needs  of  the 
enlarging  community  of  Los  Angeles,  and  particularly  in  the 
district  known  as  West  Hollywood  and  the  San  Fernando 
Valley.  His  efforts  and  influence  have  been  productive  in  covering  much  of 
that  territory  with  beautiful  suburban  homes  and  highly  developed  suburban 
farms. 

Mr.  Hay,  who  is  now  preparing  to  retire  from  active  business,  was  born 
at  Hamilton,  Canada,  October  14,  1864.  The  town  of  Hamilton,  Ontario,  was 
named  in  honor  of  his  grandfather  Hamilton,  who  went  to  Canada  on  a  sailing 
vessel  from  Scotland.  William  and  Hamilla  (Hamilton)  Hay,  parents  of  the 
Los  Angeles  real  estate  man,  were  both  born  in  Scotland  and  were  married  in 
Glasgow.  William  Hamilton  was  a  Presbyterian  minister,  and  died  of  apoplexy 
while  still  engaged  in  that  profession  in  Canada.  His  widow  afterwards  eame 
to  Los  Angeles,  where  she  died  in  1893. 

William  H.  Hay  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Canada  and  was  fif- 
teen years  of  age  when  he  came  to  Los  Angeles  in  1880.  On  April  8,  1888, 
he  completed  his  naturalization  as  an  American  citizen  before  Judge  Lucius 
Shaw,  now  a  member  of  the  State  Supreme  Court  of  California.  For  about 
sixteen  years  Mr.  Hay  was  associated  with  J.  F.  White  in  the  real  estate  busi- 
ness at  4  East  First  Street.  He  learned  the  business  with  Mr.  White  and 
afterwards  for  about  ten  years  they  were  associated  in  partnership  as  White 
&  Hay.  For  about  ten  years  he  was  associated  with  C.  E.  Norton,  the  firm  of 
Norton  &  Hay  being  located  at  318  West  Third  Street.  Their  office,  occupying 
the  ground  floor  of  the  building  there,  was  the  best  known  real  estate  establish- 
ment of  that  time.  Since  the  death  of  Mr.  Norton  about  1911  Mr.  Hay  has 
carried  on  his  business  under  his  own  name. 

Mr.  Hay  became  interested  in  the  farm  and  ranch  property  at  West  Holly- 
wood in  1908  and  has  developed  that  district  so  rapidly  that  it  is  now  solidly  cov- 
ered with  handsome  residences.  He  also  put  on  the  market  the  railroad  tract 
adjoining  the  depot  at  San  Bernardino  and  originally  owned  what  is  now 
known  as  Marygold  Acres  adjoining  the  Rialto  in  San  Bernardino  County.  His 
interests  during  the  last  several  years  have  been  chiefly  concentrated  on  a  mag- 
nificent property  in  the  San  Fernando  Valley,  bisected  by  the  beautiful  Cali- 
fornia State  Highway.  This  subdivision  is  known  as  Encino  Acres  and  com- 
prised originally  over  4,500  acres,  being  about  two  and  three-quarter  miles 
square.  Mr.  Hay  also  installed  aqueduct  water  through  the  above  tract,  laid 
out  and  constructed  the  streets,  and  the  entire  area,  now  divided  into  suburban 
farms,  from  five  acres  to  twenty  acres,  has  all  the  basic  improvements  which 
make  such  property  immediately  available  to  purchasers.  He  also  marketed 
the  160  acres  known  as  Crescent  Heights,  West  Hollywood,  running  along 
Sunset  and  Santa  Monica  Boulevard,  but  this  property  is  now  all  sold. 

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Mr.  Hay  is  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Chamber  of  Commerce,  a  life 
member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club,  a  member  of  the  Automobile  Club 
of  Southern  California,  the  Municipal  League,  Young  Men's  Christian  Associa- 
tion, and  the  National  Defense  League  of  California.  During  the  war  he  donated 
the  use  of  a  sixteen  room  house  on  Sunset  Boulevard  in  West  Hollywood  to  the 
Red  Cross  for  sixteen  months.  The  West  Hollywood  Red  Cross  Auxiliary  was 
organized  there.  Mr.  Hay  is  also  said  to  possess  the  finest  private  collection 
of  minerals  in  California. 

Mr.  Hay  is  a  widely  traveled  and  cultured  gentleman.  About  ten  years 
ago  in  1908  he  made  a  trip  around  the  world,  going  by  San  Francisco  to  Japan, 
visiting  the  larger  cities  of  China,  then  to  Vladivostok  and  across  Siberia  by 
the  great  Siberian  railroad  to  Moscow,  visiting  Petersburg,  Berlin,  Paris,  Lon- 
don and  thence  across  the  ocean  to  New  York  and  across  the  continent  to  his 
home  state.  Politically  Mr.  Hay  is  a  republican  and  was  one  of  the  stanchest 
supporters  in  California  of  Hiram  Johnson. 

In  1910,  at  Los  Angeles,  Mr.  Hay  married  Miss  Katherine  Edmonson,  who 
was  born  at  Huntington,  Indiana,  in  a  house  where  her  mother  is  still  living. 
She  was  educated  in  Chicago  and  since  her  marriage  has  become  a  well  known 
and  popular  member  of  social  circles  in  West  Hollywood  and  Los  Angeles. 
She  is  a  member  of  the  Hollywood  Club  and  the  Ebell  Club.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hay 
reside  at  7940  Sunset  Boulevard,  and  have  a  country  home  of  fifty  acres  in 
Encino.  Mr.  Hay  has  also  a  sister,  Miss  Minnie  Grafton  Hay,  and  two  daughters, 
Ruby  and  Elizabeth. 


Srbtng  €♦  Sngrafjam 


HERE  were  two  widely  distant  communities  upon  which  the  life 
of  the  late  Irving  E.  Ingraham  was  deeply  impressed.  One 
was  his  birthplace,  the  scene  of  his  business  activities  and 
the  home  of  his  ancestors,  Bristol,  Connecticut,  and  the  other 
was  Los  Angeles,  which,  after  the  choice  presented  by  world- 
wide travel  he  has  selected  as  the  most  delightful  place  for 
a  home. 

Mr.  Ingraham  was  born  at  Bristol,  Connecticut,  Decem- 
ber 5,  1860.  His  grandfather,  Elias  Ingraham,  was  a  pioneer  of  Bristol  and 
gave  that  little  city  its  chief  industrial  and  commercial  character.  He  was  the 
maker  of  the  first  Ingraham  clock  and  established  and  built  up  the  Ingraham 
clock  factory  to  large  proportions.  After  the  death  of  Elias  Ingraham  it  was 
carried  on  by  his  son  Edward  E.  Ingraham.  The  Ingrahams  were  all  men  of 
fine  calibre,  highly  respected  and  beloved  in  their  communities  and  all  of  them 
married  women  who  were  daughters  of  prominent  men. 

Irving  Ingraham,  son  of  Edward  E.,  was  educated  in  the  schools  of  Bristol 
and  also  attended  a  military  school  for  several  years.  He  left  school  to  enter 
his  father's  business.  He  had  two  brothers  and  two  sisters.  The  three  brothers 
carried  on  the  clock  business  after  their  father's  death,  and  that  business  was 
the  source  of  the  fortune  which  Mr.  Irving  E.  Ingraham  used  so  wisely  and 
so  well. 

For  a  number  of  years  he  had  lived  retired  from  business  and  he  and  his 
wife  spent  much  of  the  time  in  travel  which  took  them  to  every  part  of  the 
civilized  world.  They  were  travelers  over  both  the  conventional  and  the  unfre- 
quented routes  of  world  journeys  again  and  again.  Finally  their  quest  for  the 
most  beautiful  land  in  which  to  live  brought  them  to  Southern  California, 
where  they  located  permanently  in  1897. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ingraham  were  married  July  21,  1893.  While  they  had 
no  children  of  their  own,  they  had  many  nephews  and  nieces,  and  derived  a 
great  deal  of  happiness  from  these  younger  people.  Mr.  Ingraham  was  a  great 
hunter  and  a  member  of  various  hunting  clubs. 

Tn  selecting  a  home  at  Los  Angeles  he  located  at  2000  West  Adams  Street. 
While  that  is  now  in  the  most  exclusive  section  of  the  city,  at  the  time  of  Mr. 
Ingraham 's  purchase  of  a  large  acreage  the  site  was  a  barley  field.  It  was  not 
accessible  to  gas  nor  electricity,  and  only  a  water  supply  was  provided.  The 
first  year  Mr.  Ingraham  and  wife  planted  thousands  of  small  pines,  and  now 
after  twenty  years  the  pines  have  become  large  and  stately  trees  and  under- 
neath is  a  perfect  carpet  of  pine  needles.  It  is  probably  the  only  cultivated 
pine  forest  in  Southern  California.  Later  in  their  travels  they  selected  the 
rarest  blooming  plants,  and  many  choice  varieties  of  fruit  trees  and  other 
exotics.  These  are  now  splendid  adornments  of  the  spacious  grounds.  One 
tree  on  the  grounds  is  the  Australian  strawberry  tree,  standing  six  or  eight 
feet  tall.  There  are  many  rare  varieties  of  the  guavas,  also  the  Avocado  pears 
as  tall  as  the  pines,  and  it  would  require  a  horticultural  and  botanical  expert 
to  properly  enumerate  and  classify  all  the  splendid  flora  found  in  luxuriance 
at  the  Ingraham  place. 

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The  house  is  a  spacious  mansion  on  a  hill,  from  the  windows  of  which  a 
view  is  commanded  down  the  slopes  into  the  gardens  and  forests.  The  basic 
principle  of  the  entire  arrangement  of  the  house  was  "for  comfort."  At  the 
driveway  is  a  house  with  perfect,  spacious  and  comfortable  quarters  for  the 
servants,  where  all  the  cooking  for  the  menage  is  done.  The  central  and  domi- 
nating feature  of  the  residence  quarters  is  the  great  living  room.  It  has,  of 
course,  a  fireplace,  where  pine  logs  and  pine  needles  are  burned.  Each  reading 
chair,  and  there  are  many  of  them,  has  its  own  individual  reading  lamp.  The 
late  Mr.  Ingraham  and  Mrs.  Ingraham  found  their  greatest  pleasure  in  their 
home  and  their  ample  means  enabled  them  to  provide  it  with  facilities  for  com- 
fort, while  their  good  taste  avoided  the  impression  of  extreme  or  fantastic 
luxuries.  The  late  Mr.  Ingraham  was  one  of  the  most  honorable  of  men  and 
respected  and  loved  by  all.  His  public  spirit  doubtless  found  its  chief  expres- 
sion in  the  Los  Angeles  Symphony  Association  of  which  he  was  one  of  the 
founders  and  he  was  always  a  warm  sympathizer  with  its  aims  and  a  generous 
contributor  to  its  purse.  It  was  largely  due  to  his  initiative,  enthusiasm,  that 
the  Association  has  grown  in  artistic  fulfillment  and  also  in  financial  strength. 
When  Mr.  Ingraham  passed  away  he  requested  that  no  tomb  be  placed  above 
his  grave.  Recently  as  a  fitting  memorial  Mrs.  Ingraham  subscribed  $5,000 
for  a  life  membership  in  the  Symphony  in  his  name.  She  had  previously  sub- 
scribed a  similar  amount  for  a  life  membership  of  her  own.  The  Los  Angeles 
Symphony  had  its  first  home  in  the  Mason  Opera  House.  When  Clune's  Audi- 
torium was  built  it  was  largely  due  to  the  encouragement  and  initiative  of 
Mr.  Ingraham  that  the  Auditorium  became  the  new  home  of  the  orchestra. 
Other  members  of  the  association  hesitated  on  account  of  the  expense,  but  he 
declared  that  the  best  was  none  too  good  for  such  an  institution  and  his  con- 
victions and  enthusiasm  carried  the  day. 

Mr.  Ingraham  was  a  member  of  the  California  Club,  of  many  hunting 
clubs,  and  was  very  fond  of  outdoor  life,  including  the  sports  of  tennis,  golf 
and  hunting.  He  knew  many  of  the  great  artists.  Frequently  in  former  times 
Paul  de  Longpre  would  ride  over  on  his  bicycle  from  Hollywood  and  enjoy  the 
comforts  and  good  society  of  the  Ingraham  home.  Mr.  Ingraham  died  in 
August,  1912. 


Jfreb  Solomon 


ROM  a  penniless  newsboy  on  the  streets  of  San  Francisco,  to 
the  "Dance  King  of  the  West"  has  been  the  rapid  rise  within 
a  little  more  than  two  decades  of  Fred  H.  Solomon,  now  one 
of  the  best  known  citizens  of  Los  Angeles  and  Southern  Cali- 
fornia. Absolutely  through  his  own  efforts,  he  has  built  up 
one  of  the  largest  amusement  institutions  of  America  which 
furnishes  instruction  and  entertainment  daily  and  nightly  to 
thousands  of  thousands  of  Los  Angelans,  namely  Solomon's 
Greater  Penny  Dance  de  luxe. 

Mr.  Solomon  was  born  in  San  Francisco,  August  17,  1876,  to  Chapman 
and  Sarephine  Solomon.  His  parents  had  previously  come  to  California  from 
Louisiana.  His  father  crossed  the  plains  in  the  early  days  to  San  Francisco 
and  was  engaged  in  the  wholesale  jewelry  business  until  his  death  in  1902. 
The  widowed  mother  is  now  living  with  her  son  in  Los  Angeles. 

As  a  boy,  Mr.  Solomon  attended  public  school  in  San  Francisco  until  he 
was  fourteen  years  of  age.  His  first  big  enterprise  aside  from  the  sale  of  news- 
papers was  as  a  traveling  salesman  covering  the  state  of  Texas  for  M.  J.  Bran- 
denstein,  a  wholesale  tea  and  matting  merchant.  He  sold  his  wares  over  that 
great  state  for  over  four  years,  then  he  returned  to  San  Francisco  to  form  a 
partnership  with  his  brother  Chapman,  to  engage  in  the  Japanese  curio  im- 
porting business.  Fred  Solomon  was  the  traveling  representative  for  the  firm 
and  was  on  the  road  practically  all  of  every  year  for  a  period  of  twenty  years. 

After  retiring  from  this  field  of  business  endeavor,  Mr.  Solomon  came  to 
Los  Angeles  and  established  what  is  known  as  Solomon 's  Grand  Avenue  Dancing 
Pavilion.  Starting  out  to  make  his  pavilion  the  Mecca  of  exclusive  and  fash- 
ionable society  people  of  the  Southland,  he  set  the  regular  price  of  dancing 
at  five  cents  per  couple.  There  was  not  enough  patronage  at  this  figure  and 
the  prospects  for  further  continuance  of  the  enterprise  were  not  encouraging, 
when  one  day  out  of  a  clear  sky  came  a  valuable  suggestion  from  a  Los  Angeles 
newsboy.  The  little  merchant  of  the  street,  used  to  dealing  in  pennies  in  the 
selling  of  his  papers,  suggested  to  Mr.  Solomon  that  he  inaugurate  a  penny 
dance.  This  was  in  1915  at  a  time  when  coppers  were  just  beginning  a  popular 
circulation  in  Los  Angeles.  With  grave  doubts  and  considerable  misgivings 
as  to  the  results,  Mr.  Solomon  adopted  the  suggested  change,  and  the  con- 
sequences have  been  little  short  of  marvelous.  During  the  past  two  years  he 
has  handled  upwards  of  six  million  people  at  his  main  gate,  has  paid  over  a 
quarter  of  a  million  dollars  for  music,  and  has  checked  enough  hats  to  supply 
every  American  soldier  who  took  part  in  the  great  war  with  a  headpiece.  The 
only  refreshments  sold  at  the  pavilion  are  ice  cream  and  soda  water.  More 
than  fifty-six  persons  are  on  the  Penny  Dance  payroll  which  aggregates  several 
thousand  dollars  a  week.  Another  feature  of  the  pavilion  is  the  popular-priced 
dancing  lessons,  ten  of  which  are  given  for  the  ridiculously  low  sum  of  one 
dollar.  Every  year  more  than  ten  thousand  pupils  have  received  instruction  in 
the  art  of  dancing  by  a  staff  of  ten  highly  paid  instructors,  several  of  whom 
receive  a  salary  in  excess  of  $100  per  week. 

The  Dance  King  is  particularly  noted  for  his  charitable  proclivities. 

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Every  holiday  season  in  Los  Angeles  the  newsboys  of  the  city  look  forward 
eagerly  to  the  annual  Christmas  dinner  given  by  Mr.  Solomon  at  which  the 
venders  of  the  different  Los  Angeles  journals  are  the  honored  guests  at  the 
pavilion,  and  are  furnished  everything  to  make  that  day  memorable  in  their 
lives.  This  is  only  one  of  many  philanthropic  enterprises  with  which  the 
Dance  King  is  connected.  There  is  scarcely  a  charitable  institution  in  Southern 
California  that  has  not  received  a  subscription  from  "the  man  who  made  the 
penny  famous." 

During  the  Fourth  Liberty  Loan  in  Los  Angeles,  Mr.  Solomon  bought 
$30,000  worth  of  bonds  with  15,000  pounds  of  pennies.  That  was  the  largest 
purchase  in  weight  of  cash  made  in  the  entire  United  States.  For  several 
years  Mr.  Solomon  has  maintained  a  cot  at  the  new  Methodist  Hospital  for 
working  girls.  The  cot  was  placed  at  the  disposal  of  the  Young  Women's 
Christian  Association,  and  has  taken  care  of  from  one  hundred  to  a  hundred 
and  fifty  cases  every  year.  The  cot  was  dedicated  to  Mr.  Solomon's  mother, 
Mrs.  S.  E.  Solomon,  who  personally  looks  after  most  of  the  cases.  Mr.  Solo- 
mon is  also  a  veteran  of  the  Roosevelt  Spanish- American  War  Veterans.  He 
was  in  the  Spanish- American  war  in  1898  as  member  of  Battery  B,  First  Cali- 
fornia Heavy  Artillery. 

Mr.  Solomon  attributes  the  bulk  of  his  success  to  consistent  and  sensa- 
tional advertising.  More  than  once,  he  has  made  Los  Angeles  sit  up  and  take 
notice  with  the  various  stunts  he  has  staged  to  give  from  page  publicity  to  the 
Penny  Dance  de  luxe.  Mr.  Solomon  has  received  many  invitations  from  other 
cities  to  come  to  them  and  establish  penny  dances,  and  while  scores  of  lucrative 
offers  have  been  made,  he  has  persistently  refused,  insisting  that  he  is  anchored 
to  Los  Angeles  and  Southern  California  for  good  and  all. 


(gobfrep  ^olterfjoH,  Jr. 


ODFREY  HOLTERHOFF,  JR.,  a  prominent  official  of  the 
Santa  Fe  Railway  at  Los  Angeles,  has  been  a  resident  of  the 
state  for  forty  years  and  practically  throughout  that  time 
actively  identified  with  the  practical  and  financial  problems 
of  railroading. 

He  was  born  at  Cincinnati,  November  4,  1860,  son  of 
Godfrey  and  Helena  C.  (Guysi)  Holterhoff.    He  graduated 
from  the  Woodward  High  School  in  Cincinnati  in  1877  and 
for  a  year  or  so  thereafter  was  in  several  lines  of  business  in  Cincinnati. 

On  account  of  impaired  health  he  came  to  California  (Los  Angeles)  in 
October,  1879,  and  after  recovering  his  strength  in  the  fall  of  1880,  he  became 
secretary  to  the  managing  agent  of  a  syndicate  at  San  Diego  which  organized 
and  built  the  California  Southern  Railroad  which  later  was  succeeded  by  the 
Southern  California  Railway  Company,  and  in  1902  acquired  by  the  Atchison, 
Topeka  and  Santa  Fe  Railway  Company  and  was  during  the  intervening  years 
in  various  departments  of  the  railroad,  but  since  1883  solely  in -the  financial 
department.  In  1893  he  was  promoted  from  cashier  and  paymaster  to  secretary 
and  treasurer  and  later  when  the  road  was  formally  acquired  by  the  Santa  Fe 
Railway,  Mr.  Holterhoff  was  made  assistant  treasurer  and  assistant  secretary 
of  the  Santa  Fe  and  in  charge  of  the  financial  department  of  the  company  in 
its  far  western  territory.  Since  then  he  has  become  an  officer  and  director  in 
over  thirty  corporations,  the  majority  of  them  controlled  by  the  Santa  Fe. 
He  has  also  given  his  services  as  a  director  or  in  other  executive  capacities  to 
the  Brea  Canon  Oil  Company,  Kings  County  Development  Company,  East 
Highland  Improvement  Company,  California  Portland  Cement  Company,  Los 
Angeles  Trust  and  Savings  Bank,  Southern  Trust  and  Commerce  Bank  at  San 
Diego,  and  has  many  important  interests  in  orange  groves,  oil  and  land  prop- 
erties, and  commercial  and  manufacturing  enterprises.  In  financial  circles  Mr. 
Holterhoff  is  easily  one  of  the  best  known  men  in  Southern  California. 

He  is  a  republican,  and  in  Los  Angeles  is  a  member  of  the  Southwestern 
Society  of  the  Archaeological  Institute  of  America,  the  California  Club,  Sunset 
Club,  Los  Angeles  Country  Club,  Midwick  Country  Club,  Crags  Country  Club, 
Cerritos  Gun  Club,  and  the  Landmarks  Club.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the 
Los  Angeles  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

At  Los  Angeles  September  5,  1889,  he  married  Mrs.  Louise  Schaeffer 
Lewis.    They  have  one  daughter,  Leila  S.  Holterhoff. 


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EORGE  SIMPSON  SAFFORD  was  born  in  Perry,  Wyoming 
County,  New  York,  in  1854.  He  had  read  some  of  the  fasci- 
nating writings  of  John  Muir,  and  they  had  made  a  deep 
impression  on  his  youthful  mind.  Hence,  shortly  after  his 
mother's  death,  when  he  was  seventeen  years  old,  his  most 
obvious  thought  was  of  the  great  West. 

Los  Angeles,  which  proved  to  be  his  goal,  was  then  a 
thrifty  town  of  about  five  thousand  people,  half  American, 
half  Mexican,  with  the  atmosphere  not  so  much  of  a  frontier  settlement  as  a 
foreign  city.  There  was  no  rail  connection  with  the  world  of  activities  beyond, 
only  a  railroad  of  about  twenty  miles  to  Wilmington,  and  the  principal  means 
of  transit  was  by  coastwise  steamers  between  Wilmington  and  San  Francisco, 
one  trip  a  week. 

In  this  primitive  but  congenial  and  promising  community,  young  Safford 
cast  his  lines.  He  was  of  pleasant  address  and  ready  observation  and  endowed 
with  ambition,  industry  and  correct  standards. 

I  formed  his  acquaintance  in  the  spring  of  1874,  having  recently  arrived 
in  Los  Angeles  on  the  same  quest  as  himself.  From  that  time  until  his  death — 
a  period  of  more  than  forty-four  years — the  bond  of  confidence  and  friendship 
established  between  us  never  suffered  a  flaw.  On  a  basis  similarly  ideal  and 
enduring  there  was  soon  formed  a  little  coterie  of  young  fellows  engaged  in 
the  struggle  for  the  main  chance,  whose  temperaments  made  them  congenial. 
This  group  included,  beside  George  and  myself,  Andrew  M.  Lawrence,  Fred 
W.  Wood  and  Frank  A.  Gibson.  Cicero  in  his  "De  Amicitia"  says  that  the 
friendships  of  youth  seldom  extend  into  mature  life,  "for  either  personal 
interests  or  the  matter  of  taking  a  wife  come  in  to  work  a  separation."  It  was 
not  so  with  tts.  As  the  wives  came  along,  they  were  adopted  sisters,  and  there 
were  double  the  number  to  rejoice  with  us  in  our  success  and  to  sympathize 
with  us  in  our  adversities  and  sorrows. 

Alas,  the  original  five  are  all  gone  now  over  the  Great  Divide,  all  but  the 
one  who  writes  these  lines. 

Mr.  Safford  was  successively  bookkeeper  and  cashier  on  the  Los  Angeles 
Morning  Herald,  secretary  to  Dr.  T.  O.  Stanway,  then  the  leading  physician 
of  Los  Angeles,  and  then  bookkeeper  and  cashier  of  the  Santa  Anita  Ranch, 
for  E.  J.  Baldwin,  for  several  years.  It  was  at  this  time,  in  1879,  he  married 
Miss  Emma  O'Melveny,  daughter  of  Judge  H.  K.  S.  O'Melveny.  The  wedding 
was  in  the  old  homestead  on  the  corner  of  Second  and  Broadway  (then  known 
as  Fort  Street).  A  little  over  a  year  later  the  Safford  family  was  rejoicing 
over  the  birth  of  a  son. 

My  friend's  next  appointment,  as  I  recall  it,  was  as  agent  for  the  Southern 
Pacific  Railroad  at  Pantano,  Arizona,  a  position  which  he  held  four  or  five 
years.  His  wife's  brother,  Edward  O'Melveny,  was  agent  at  Benson,  twenty 
miles  to  the  eastward.  The  two  families  decided  to  return  to  Los  Angeles  in 
1884.  During  their  sojourn  in  the  wilderness  they  had  both  saved  a  little 
capital  and  with  it  they  purchased  a  trucking  business.  Their  experience  as 
railway  agents  had  well  equipped  them  for  this  line  of  work  and  they  proceeded 

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to  organize  the  California  Truck  Company,  and  place  it  on  a  basis  commensu- 
rate with  the  rapidly  growing  requirements  of  the  city.  Subsequently,  E.  H. 
Sanderson,  a  cousin  by  marriage,  was  taken  into  the  company,  and  later  Mr. 
O'Melveny  sold  his  interest.  Mr.  Safford  was  chosen  president  of  the  corpora- 
tion and  remained  so  till  the  time  of  his  death.  The  business  grew  rapidly, 
and  has  long  been  regarded  as  one  of  the  most  substantial  in  the  city.  It  is 
now  carried  on  by  H.  B.  Safford  and  Rowe  Sanderson,  sons  of  the  founders. 

Shortly  after  the  return  of  the  family  from  Arizona  occurred  the  birth 
of  their  daughter  Helen,  now  Mrs.  A.  M.  Bonsall.  In  1897  Mr.  Safford  suffered 
bereavement  in  the  death  of  his  wife. 

As  a  young  man  George  Safford  was  observant  and  thoughtful,  but  not 
talkative.  This  characteristic  was  dominant  with  him  through  life.  He  had 
an  alert  eye  for  opportunities,  a  firm  decision  in  grasping  them  and  great 
persistence  in  carrying  them  to  fruition.  He  was  not  satisfied  merely  to  preside 
over  a  large  and  exacting  business,  but  he  reached  out  to  other  fields  and 
became  a  real  estate,  oil  and  mining  operator  on  a  considerable  scale. 

He  was  among  the  first  to  develop  the  Wilshire  district,  holding  a  large 
interest  in  the  Wilshire  Harvard  Heights  tract  comprising  eighty  acres  which 
he  bought  in  company  with  E.  A.  Forrester  &  Sons.  The  same  syndicate  later 
bought  the  Joughins  ranch  of  over  300  acres,  south  of  the  city,  which  was  sub- 
divided under  the  name  of  Angeles  Mesa.  Then  a  syndicate  purchased  the 
holdings  of  H.  E.  Huntington  in  the  San  Fernando  Valley  and  are  disposing 
of  them  under  the  title  of  the  Mission  Lands  Company. 

Although  this  brief  summary  of  the  career  of  my  lifelong  friend  is  mainly 
of  business  details,  for  his  was  a  busy,  practical  life,  there  was  room  in  it  for 
the  most  steadfast  friendships,  the  highest  ideals  of  character,  the  greatest 
devotion  to  those  he  loved,  and  kindliness  and  charity  toward  his  fellow  man. 

In  1900  Mr.  Safford  married  Miss  Mae  Campbell,  daughter  of  the  late 
J.  D.  Campbell. 

In  summing  up  the  character  of  my  friend,  I  would  say  that  he  was  a  man 
of  remarkable  poise.  He  was  reserved,  averse  to  display  of  any  sort,  and  when 
he  spoke  his  language  was  forceful  and  to  the  point.  Only  those  who  knew 
him  intimately  could  tell  how  deep  and  broad  a  current  of  consideration  and 
sympathy  flowed  beneath  the  calm  surface. 

He  was  self-educated  in  the  hard  school  of  practical  affairs,  but  he  was 
well  informed  on  all  matters  of  public  interest,  and  held  liberal  and  advanced 
views  in  politics,  religion  and  social  affairs. 

A  citizen  of  Los  Angeles  through  its  years  of  phenomenal  development,  he 
made  his  way  to  the  front  ranks  among  its  promoters  and  developers,  and  left 
a  lasting  impress  upon  the  community.  He  might  have  said  in  the  words  of 
Caesar,  "all  of  which  I  saw,  and  a  part  of  which  I  was." 

His  fondness  for  nature  went  with  him  all  through  life.  He  knew  and 
loved  the  mountains  and  streams  of  California,  and  his  recreation  was  in- 
variably an  extended  trip  on  a  trout  fishing  excursion.  His  friends  all  knew 
that  if  conversation  lagged  they  could  always  stir  up  a  lively  interest  by  men- 
tioning trout. 

George  Simpson  Safford  died  June  11,  1918,  after  a  brief  illness.  Thus 
he  passed  in  the  midst  of  an  active  and  usual  career,  and  left  an  ache  in  the 
hearts  of  all  who  loved  him. — William  A.  Spalding. 


HERE  are  few  Los  Angeles  people  who  do  not  know  Mrs.  Susan 
M.  Dorsey  as  one  of  the  active  officials  in  the  public  school 
system  in  the  city.  She  has  been  a  teacher  and  school  admin- 
istrator here  for  twenty  years  or  more,  but  her  service  has 
been  distinguished  not  merely  by  its  duration  and  the  respon- 
sibility of  the  offices  she  has  held,  but  the  particularly  personal 
character  of  the  work  she  has  done  and  the  ideas  and  ideals 


which  have  guided  her  in  that  work. 

Mrs.  Dorsey  is  a  native  of  Penn  Yan,  New  York  State.  She  is  a  graduate 
of  Vassar  College  and  for  three  years  after  graduating  taught  at  Vassar. 
After  that  she  took  up  various  social  and  church  lines  of  work,  and  it  was 
those  interests  which  first  brought  her  to  California. 

During  the  first  nine  years  of  her  residence  in  this  state  she  was  identified 
with  various  social  programs.  In  1892  she  entered  upon  school  work,  and  in 
1896  became  a  teacher  in  the  classical  languages  in  the  Los  Angeles  High 
School.  Later  she  was  promoted  to  the  headship  of  the  classical  department 
and  later  was  made  vice  principal  in  this  high  school.  In  this  position  Mrs. 
Dorsey  had  opportunity  not  only  to  teach  along  the  formal  lines,  but  to  assist 
largely  in  shaping  the  policies  of  the  Los  Angeles  High  School  and  of  all  the 
high  schools  of  the  city.  She  applied  herself  with  great  zest  to  many  problems 
for  integrating  the  work  of  the  high  schools  with  that  of  colleges  and  the 
practical  work  of  life.  She  constantly  sought  to  work  out  plans  for  developing 
the  social  life  of  the  school,  and  for  introducing  into  it  a  liberal  and  demo- 
cratic spirit  which  would  gradually  disintegrate  the  class  and  clique  system 
too  frequently  found  in  such  schools.  Mrs.  Dorsey  was  profoundly  interested 
and  ultimately  instrumental  in  devising  a  method  whereby  older  girls  should 
be  able  to  help  the  younger  ones. 

Much  is  said  nowadays  about  vocational  guidance  and  other  features  of 
school  and  social  programs.  It  is  not  assigning  too  much  credit  to  Mrs.  Dorsey 
to  say  that  she  was  one  of  the  pioneers  in  developing  the  idea  of  vocational 
guidance.  In  the  direction  of  that  ideal  she  was  steadily  progressing  when 
most  public  schools  in  America  and  elsewhere  were  given  over  to  the  cut  and 
dried  program  of  formal  education,  with  only  incidental  relationship  to  the 
big  and  vital  problems  of  life. 

In  March,  1913,  by  the  unanimous  choice  of  the  Board  of  Education,  Mrs. 
Dorsey  entered  upon  the  duties  of  assistant  superintendent  of  schools.  With 
this  assignment  there  came  the  responsibility  of  supervising  one  of  the  school 
districts.  In  spite  of  absorption  in  this  larger  and  more  general  work  she  has 
always  found  time  to  consider  individual  cases  whether  of  a  teacher  or  a  pupil. 
Because  of  her  interest  in  organizations  having  in  charge  the  social  welfare 
of  women  and  girls  in  the  city,  she  has  done  much  to  put  the  work  of  the 
schools  into  close  and  effective  co-ordination  with  such  outside  organizations, 
and  to  secure  frequent  conferences  between  the  school  authorities  proper  and 
the  juvenile  associations,  the  City  Mothers  and  charity  organizations.  Espe- 
cially during  the  war  much  time  and  serious  effort  were  given  to  making  the 

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schools  one  of  the  great  controlling  factors  in  Los  Angeles  toward  winning 

the  war. 

Mrs.  Dorsey  has  served  as  president  of  the  California  Teachers'  Associa- 
tion, Southern  Section,  and  is  at  present  a  member  of  the  Commission  on  the 
National  Emergency  in  Education,  a  member  of  the  National  Council  of  Edu- 
cation and  vice  president  of  the  National  Education  Association.  She  is  a 
charter  member  of  the  Woman's  University  Club,  a  member  of  the  Vassar 
Club,  City  Teachers'  Club  and  of  the  National  Education  Association.  She  is 
devoted  to  the  working  out  of  a  large  and  wholesome  program  of  American 
education,  and  her  own  Americanism  is  a  record  that  begins  with  her  ancestors, 
who  fought  in  the  Revolutionary  war. 

On  January  1,  1920,  Mrs.  Dorsey  entered  upon  the  work  of  superintendent 
of  the  schools  of  Los  Angeles,  to  which  position  she  had  been  assigned  by  the 
Board  of  Education  a  few  days  before.  She  has  assumed  this  responsible 
work  at  a  time  of  extreme  difficulty,  owing  to  the  fact  that  war  conditions  for 
several  years  have  prevented  the  usual  improvement  and  increase  in  school 
facilities,  while  the  child  population  of  Los  Angeles  has  kept  on  growing  at 
an  astonishing  rate.  She  will  bring  to  the  situation  steadiness,  courage,  optim- 
ism and  determination. 


hospital  of  tfje  #oob  Samaritan 


HE  HOSPITAL  OF  THE  GOOD  SAMARITAN  STUDENT 
BODY  GOVERNMENT.  The  year  1919  marks  the  sixth  an- 
niversary of  an  important  organization  in  the  Nurses'  Train- 
ing School  of  the  Hospital  of  the  Good  Samaritan,  namely, 
Student  Body  Government.  This  organization  has  been  a  most 
valuable  factor  in  the  upbuilding  of  the  school,  and  one  of 
which  each  member  has  every  reason  to  be  proud. 

Knowing  that  trust  in  an  individual  will  raise  that  per- 
son's standards,  our  country  has  for  the  past  ten  or  twelve  years  endeavored  to 
improve  the  discipline  in  its  high  schools  and  colleges  by  placing  upon  its  students 
the  responsibility  of  self  government.  The  inefficiency  of  student  body  govern- 
ment, more  especially  in  the  high  schools,  has  been  due  largely  to  the  carefree 
and  irresponsible  attitude  of  its  members.  Our  Nurses'  Student  Body  has  not 
this  condition  to  meet,  for  a  young  woman  entering  the  nursing  profession  very 
early  realizes  the  responsibility  of  her  position  in  life.  It  would  seem  most 
plausible  that  self  government  should  operate  successfully  amongst  a  body  of 
professional  women.  But,  upon  deeper  thought,  the  difficulties  of  such  a  gov- 
ernment begin  to  appear.  However,  these  can  be  overcome  very  readily  by  a 
strong  foundation  on  which  to  build.  The  foundation  consists  of  a  body  of 
nurses  with  high  standards  and  a  superintendent  they  love,  respect  and  admire. 
With  these  assets,  student  body  government  in  a  nurses'  training  school  de- 
velops the  weaker  nurses,  weeds  out  the  undesirable  and  promotes  a  feeling 
of  pride  and  loyalty  in  the  school. 

The  following  is  a  very  condensed  summary  of  the  methods  used  in  our 
school : 

The  student  body  officers  are  elected  once  a  year  from  the  senior  class. 
Prior  to  the  election,  the  nomination  committee  submits  the  nominations  to  the 
superintendent  of  the  hospital  for  approval.  The  officers  consist  of  a  president, 
vice  president,  secretary-treasurer,  librarian  and  five  monitors.  There  is  also  a 
board  of  student  body  affairs,  consisting  of  the  student  body  officers  and 
the  president  and  vice  president  of  each  class. 

The  nurse  elected  to  be  president  of  the  school  should  be  a  woman  of 
force  and  character.  She  should  be  a  woman  who  understands  girls  and  can 
comprehend  their  desires  and  difficulties.  She,  as  the  representative  of  the 
school,  submits  all  recommendations  and  requests  of  the  student  body  to  the 
superintendent  of  the  hospital,  and  the  superintendent  of  the  hospital,  in  turn, 
presents  her  wishes  to  the  president  of  the  student  body  to  be  placed  before 
its  members.  Complaints  concerning  the  conduct  of  nurses  are  made  to  the 
president.  If  worthy  of  consideration,  the  matter  is  brought  before  the  Board 
of  Student  Body  Affairs,  and,  if  deemed  necessary  by  them,  placed  before  the 
student  body  for  consideration. 

The  president  is  assisted  by  five  monitors  of  her  own  selection  from  the 
senior  class.  It  is  the  duty  of  the  monitors  to  enforce  all  rules  of  the  school,  to 
see  that  there  is  proper  observance  of  seniority,  to  supervise  all  matters  of 
uniforms  and  personal  neatness  among  the  nurses,  and  to  have  general  over- 
sight of  the  good  conduct  and  well-being  of  the  school.    The  senior  class  as 

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a  whole  takes  the  disciplining  of  the  school  as  its  duty,  thus  lightening  the 
work  of  the  officers  very  much. 

The  opportunities  for  abusing  and  overstepping  rules  are  greater  under 
student  body  government,  but  the  desire  seems  to  be  latent.  There  is  no 
supervision  in  the  nurses'  home  by  the  superintendent  or  the  hospital  super- 
visors. Each  monitor  is  in  charge  of  a  floor,  and  occasionally  it  becomes 
necessary  for  her  to  remind  the  nurses  of  their  duties,  but  it  is  not  often. 

In  admitting  new  nurses  into  our  school,  it  is  our  endeavor  to  make  them 
feel  as  comfortable  as  possible.  The  probationers  are  received  by  members  of 
the  student  body,  appointed  by  the  president.  The  first  evening  she  instructs 
them  as  to  the  rules  of  the  school  and  the  general  conduct  of  the  nurses.  They 
are  urged  to  come  to  her  with  any  difficulties  which  arise,  that  they  may  not 
become  discouraged  in  their  early  training.  When  the  probationers  are  capped 
and  taken  into  the  student  body,  the  president  impresses  upon  them  what  is 
expected  of  them,  as  a  member  of  our  school. 

How  much  our  government  has  grown  a  part  of  us  we  can  hardly  realize! 
But  the  loyalty  and  pride  which  it  has  instilled  are  most  evident.  The  re- 
sponsibility of  making  our  school  the  best  falls  on  each  individual  nurse.  Our 
path  is  not  always  smooth,  for  occasionally  we  find  among  our  member  girls 
who  endeavor  to  pollute  the  weaker  minds  and  shatter  our  ideals,  causing  a 
feeling  of  dissatisfaction  among  the  nurses.  Fortunately,  their  sojourn  in  our 
midst  is  usually  short. 

The  above  is  a  very  brief  outline  of  student  body  government  as  we  enjoy 
it.    To  write  in  detail  would  make  a  long  paper. 

It  is  to  Mrs.  Walker,  our  superintendent,  that  we  extend  out  gratitude 
for  conceiving  of  a  plan  of  government  for  our  school  which  has  given  us  so 
much  freedom,  loyalty  and  self-respect.  Student  Nurses. 


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Mrs.  Horatio  Walker,  Jr.,  during  her  residence  in  Los  Angeles  has  been 
superintendent  of  the  Hospital  of  the  Good  Samaritan,  and  her  services  in 
behalf  of  and  to  that  great  institution  make  her  one  of  the  interesting  women 
of  Southern  California. 

Mrs.  Walker  comes  of  a  family  of  scholars,  ministers  and  professional 
people.  She  was  born  in  New  Brunswick,  Canada,  her  maiden  name  being 
Rahno  Aitken.  Mrs.  Walker  feels  that  her  life  work  is  a  direct  product  of 
the  influence  and  training  she  received  from  her  father  and  mother.  Her 
father  was  the  Rev.  William  Aitken,  a  native  of  Scotland  and  a  graduate  of 
Edinburgh  University  and  a  Scotch  Presbyterian  minister.  He  married  Jane 
Noble,  whose  people  lived  at  Strabane,  County  Tyrone,  Ireland.  Mrs.  Walker 
was  one  of  a  family  of  nine  children,  all  of  whom  are  still  living.  Four  of  her 
brothers  and  one  sister  were  overseas  in  the  World  war.  Her  oldest  brother 
is  a  lawyer  of  prominence,  and  her  third  brother  is  the  present  Lord  Beaver- 
brook.  Her  mother  is  still  living  at  Newcastle,  New  Brunswick.  Her  father 
died  in  1913  in  Canada,  after  having  been  retired  for  twenty-two  years.  Mrs. 
Walker  was  educated  at  the  Ministers'  Daughters  College  in  Edinburgh,  Scot- 
land, and  has  been  overseas  a  number  of  times.  She  is  a  woman  of  culture, 
wide  experience  and  travel.  Her  father  neglected  no  opportunity  to  give 
his  children  the  broadest  possible  education,  and  it  was  a  wonderful  home 
atmosphere  in  which  Mrs.  Walker  and  her  brothers  and  sisters  grew  up. 

Mrs.  Walker's  husband,  who  died  eleven  years  ago  in  the  Pasadena  Hos- 
pital, was  the  only  son  of  Horatio  Walker,  a  famous  American  artist.  Horatio 
Walker,  Jr.,  was  born  in  Canada,  and  was  a  graduate  of  McGill  University, 
at  Montreal,  with  the  B.  A.  degree,  and  also  one  in  medicine.    Dr.  and  Mrs. 


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Walker  were  married  at  Trinidad,  Colorado,  in  1907.  Prior  to  that  time  Mrs. 
Walker  had  taken  the  course  for  training  in  the  Toronto  General  Hospital, 
and  for  a  time  was  superintendent  of  a  hospital  in  Montreal.  After  her  mar- 
riage and  the  death  of  her  husband,  she  returned  to  California  and  was  elected 
superintendent  of  the  Good  Samaritan  Hospital  eight  years  ago.  At  that 
time  the  hospital  was  still  at  its  old  site  on  Seventh  Street,  its  organization 
including  some  fifty  or  sixty  nurses.  Nine  months  later  the  institution  was 
moved  to  its  present  beautiful  home  on  Orange  Street,  and  since  then  Mrs. 
Walker  has  had  an  important  part  in  the  continuous  upbuilding  of  the  in- 
stitution, until  it  ranks  second  to  none  in  the  West.  The  Hospital  of  the 
Good  Samaritan  is  maintained  under  the  auspices  of  the  Episcopal  Church, 
Bishop  Johnson  being  president  of  the  governing  board.  While  in  so  many 
ways  the  skillful  efficiency  of  the  management  is  due  to  Mrs.  Walker,  she  is 
credited  with  one  particular  achievement,  the  introduction  in  1913  of  the 
student  body  government  in  the  Nurses  Training  School.  Those  competent 
to  speak  of  the  results  of  this  plan  freely  credit  Mrs.  Walker  with  much  of  its 
success.  In  six  years  the  plan  has  passed  through  more  than  the  experimental 
stage,  and  it  is  now  regarded  as  an  indispensable  feature  of  the  training  school 
and  has  given  a  distinctively  high  tone  to  the  character  and  conduct  of  the 
body  of  nurses. 


HE  Aggeler  &  Musser  Seed  Company,  which  was  incorporated 
in  1896,  with  H.  L.  Musser  as  president,  has  by  a  persistent 
and  active  service  contributed  values  of  untold  millions  to 
California  and  the  great  Southwest.  It  is  much  more  than  an 
ordinary  seed-distributing  house.  Henry  L.  Musser  for  over 
twenty  years  made  a  scientific  study  of  seeds  and  plants  with 
regard  to  their  adaptability  to  soil  and  climatic  conditions. 


The  company  of  which  he  is  president  has  carefully  extended 
its  facilities  for  propagation  and  breeding  of  seeds  under  the  peculiar  condi- 
tions of  the  southwestern  climate,  and  today,  besides  the  large  plant  at  Los 
Angeles,  has  an  extensive  acreage  where  seeds  are  grown  and  handled  under 
the  direct  supervision  of  the  experts  of  the  company. 

Through  the  long  continued  experiments  carried  on  by  this  organization 
have  been  introduced  some  vegetables  of  national  reputation,  including  the 
California  Pearl  Cauliflower,  the  Los  Angeles  Market  Lettuce,  the  Casaba 
Melons,  the  White  Rose  Potatoes,  the  Anaheim  Chili  and  Pimento  Peppers 
and  many  varieties  of  vegetation  of  local  prominence,  all  of  which  have  meant 
millions  of  dollars  to  Los  Angeles  find  California.  While  the  business  was 
built  up  practically  from  nothing,  it  now  ranks  with  the  largest  seed  houses 
in  the  United  States.  The  firm  not  only  grows  seeds,  but  handles  as  jobbers 
and  retailers  seeds  of  all  kinds,  and  have  established  a  large  mail  order  busi- 
ness. The  company's  export  business  extends  to  every  agricultural  center 
in  the  world. 

The  Aggeler  &  Musser  Seed  Company  requires  sixty  thousand  feet  of 
floor  space  in  its  three  Los  Angeles  plants.  A  hundred  persons  are  on  the 
pay  roll,  and  the  amount  paid  out  in  wages  and  salaries  is  several  thousand 
dollars  a  week.  Mr.  Musser  is  president,  Mr.  E.  A.  Aggeler  is  vice  president, 
and  W.  B.  Early  is  secretary  and  treasurer.  The  volume  of  business  is  in 
excess  of  one  million  dollars  per  annum. 

Henry  Lincoln  Musser  was  born  at  Marietta,  in  Lancaster  County,  Penn- 
sylvania, May  3,  1865,  and  before  coming  to  Los  Angeles  was  in  the  lumber 
business.  He  is  the  son  of  Henry  S.  and  Mary  6.  Musser.  His  father  was 
for  sixty-two  years  engaged  in  the  lumber  business  at  Marietta.  Henry  L. 
Musser  attended  public  school,  and  finished  his  education  in  the  Lebanon 
Valley  College,  at  Annville,  Pennsylvania,  graduating  with  the  class  of  1884. 
Mr.  Musser  was  a  delegate  to  the  Pacific  Coast  Congress  for  a  League  of  Na- 
tions held  in  San  Francisco  during  February,  1919.  This  brought  out  an 
interesting  fact,  showing  that  a  prophet  is  not  altogether  without  honor. 

Now  that  the  "League  of  Nations"  is  a  reality,  it  is  a  matter  of  interest 
to  read  the  following  prophetic  oration  delivered  by  Henry  Lincoln  Musser 
at  the  time  of  his  graduation  from  Lebanon  Valley  College,  Annville,  Penn- 
sylvania, May  19,  1884: 

THE  TENDENCY  OF  GOVERNMENT  IS  UNIVERSAL. 

The  requirement  of  a  universal  government  is  that  there  be  congressional 
representatives  from  every  nation  and  that  there  be  an  international  congress 

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in  every  way  as  perfect  as  our  nation's  Congress  at  Washington  aims  to  be. 
That  it  should  have  regular  sessions  and  discuss  the  general  welfare  of  the 
world. 

It  would  be  the  purpose  of  this  congress  to  bring  all  people  to  a  common 
equality;  to  educate  the  uneducated,  and  to  Christianize  the  heathen;  dot  the 
fair  lands  everywhere  with  schools  and  churches,  and  everywhere  modify  nature 
to  the  uses  of  man ;  all  this  to  be  done  at  the  expense  of  the  world,  for  all,  by 
all.  After  a  careful  review,  we  can  not  help  but  see  that  the  past  and  present 
tends  to  a  universal  government,  although  we  have  only  gotten  so  far  as  an 
occasional  international  conference,  we  must  admit  this  to  be  the  dawn  of 
universal  government. 

Let  us  review  and  see  if  each  change  of  government,  from  the  beginning 
of  any  government,  has  not  been  one  step  toward  a  republic. 

Previous  to  the  patriarchal  government  there  was  no  center  of  power; 
this  was  the  first  established  controlling  center ;  next  an  absolute  monarchy, 
followed  soon  with  a  king  and  council  of  wise  men.  This  was  succeeded  by 
a  limited  monarchy,  in  which  the  voice  of  the  people  was  having  authority, 
which  later  led  to  pure  democracy,  which  was  as  bad  as  no  government  at  all, 
because  there  was  no  concentration  of  authority.  This  led  to  a  representative 
democracy — a  republic  which  proved  to  be  the  ultimate,  when  we  might  well 
say  that  by  Divine  inspiration  the  Constitution  of  the  United  States  was  formed. 

Here  we  have  followed  the  tendency  of  all  government  and  find  that  we 
are  inevitably  led  to  a  republic.  It  is  the  ultimate  government.  It  is  now 
only  sectional.  To  be  perfect  it  must  be  universal,  and  I  believe  if  mankind 
exists  to  see  their  ideal  millennium,  it  will  be  governed  by  a  universal  republic. 

You  will  all  admit  the  possibilities  of  such  a  government ;  it  could  exist 
just  as  easily  as  the  United  States.  Nations  would  simply  sustain  the  same 
relation  to  each  other  as  states. 

Let  us  take  a  moment  to  contemplate  the  results  of  such  a  government. 
As  the  United  States  spends  millions  of  dollars  for  national  improvement,  so 
could  a  world  republic  expend  millions  for  world  improvement ;  an  expense 
that  would  scarcely  be  felt  by  a  world  of  people  who  would  receive  incalculable 
benefits. 

Mr.  John  P.  Morgan  mentions  such  benefits  when  speaking  of  the  relations 
of  the  United  States  with  Mexico.  He  said:  "When  Key  West  is  connected 
with  the  mainland  with  railway  or  a  ship  channel,  and  Cape  Catoche  is  con- 
nected by  railway  with  the  Mexican  system  and  with  the  inter-oceanic  canals, 
a  sea  will  be  inclosed  within  the  lines  of  the  two  republics  that  will  add  more 
to  the  civilization  of  the  western  hemisphere  than  the  Mediterranean  has  con- 
tributed to  the  advancement  and  elevation  of  the  human  family  in  Europe, 
Asia  and  Africa  which  incloses  its  waters. 

With  a  universal  government,  this  and  like  improvements  would  be  made ; 
all  nature  would  be  modified  to  the  uses  of  man.  To  do  this,  work  would  be 
abundant ;  to  rid  the  world  of  idleness  alone  would  be  a  grand  achievement. 

Take  the  expense  that  is  required  to  support  the  armies  of  the  world  and 
apply  it  to  the  education  of  the  ignorant  everywhere  and  you  have  done  the 
work  you  were  ordained  to  do — and  it  can  be  done  only  under  a  universal  gov- 
ernment. 

All  this  can  be  done.  It  must  be  done.  It  will  be  done.  The  past  shows 
this  tendency,  and  let  it  come  soon,  but  let  us  grow  into  it  with  a  calm  and 
secure  growth  that  can  never  become  corrupted. 

Since  the  foregoing  oration  was  delivered,  the  Key  West-Tampico  Rail- 
way has  been  completed,  the  Panama  Canal  has  been  constructed,  and  a  League 
of  Nations  is  a  reality  that  there  may  be  a  universal  government  for  all  the 
people,  by  all  the  people,  a  World  Republic. 

After  leaving  college,  Mr.  Musser  was  for  four  years  in  the  railway  mail 
service  on  a  run  between  New  York  City  and  Pittsburgh,  on  the  Pennsylvania 


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Railroad.  He  then  returned  to  Marietta  and  became  associated  with  his  father 
in  the  lumber  business  and  was  manager  for  the  elder  Musser  until  1896. 
On  coming  to  Los  Angeles  he  organized  the  Johnson  &  Musser  Seed  Company, 
becoming  its  president.  In  1903  Mr.  Johnson  died,  and  in  1906  the  business 
was  incorporated  as  the  Aggeler  &  Musser  Seed  Company. 

Mr.  Musser  is  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club,  the  Chamber 
of  Commerce,  and  is  a  republican.  At  Marietta,  Pennsylvania,  April  14,  1896, 
he  married  Emma  Pcmeroy.  They  have  one  daughter,  Mary,  a  graduate  of 
the  Hollywood  High  School. 


Ctmrle*  Stopper 


F  there  is  such  a  thing  as  a  real  estate  man  "to  the  manner 
born,"  the  description  would  fit  Charles  B.  Hopper  probably 
better  than  any  other  man  in  Southern  California.  The  real 
estate  business  seems  to  have  run  in  the  Hopper  family.  Mr. 
Hopper's  father  was  a  successful  real  estate  operator  in  the 
East,  and  also  on  the  Pacific  Coast,  and  Mr.  Hopper  himself 
grew  up  in  the  atmosphere  of  a  real  estate  office  and  has  known 
and  wanted  no  other  field  of  work  since  he  was  a  boy. 
He  is  the  subdivision  man  supreme  and  pre-eminent,  and  his  work  in  de- 
veloping and  selling  subdivisions  in  and  around  Los  Angeles  is  probably  too 
well  known  to  require  further  introduction.  In  later  years  his  name  and 
enterprise  have  been  especially  identified  with  the  Southgate  Gardens  and 
South  Park  Gardens. 

Mr.  Hopper  was  born  at  Titusville,  the  famous  center  of  the  Pennsyl- 
vania oil  industry,  September  26,  1880,  a  son  of  Isaac  B.  and  Elizabeth  (Har- 
riman)  Hopper,  the  former  a  native  of  New  Jersey,  and  the  latter  of  Adrian, 
Michigan.  The  family  came  to  California  and  located  at  Los  Angeles  in  1895. 
Isaac  Hopper  died  March  11,  1911,  having  been  retired  several  years  before 
his  death.  Charles  B.  and  his  sister,  Mrs.  Kelley  Rees,  of  Portland,  Oregon, 
are  the  only  survivors  of  four  children. 

Charles  B.  Hopper,  the  youngest,  was  educated  in  the  grammar  and  high 
schools  of  Los  Angeles,  attended  Leland  Stanford  University,  and  in  1896 
went  to  work  in  the  real  estate  business  with  his  father.  He  has  been  an 
independent  operator  since  1903,  and  it  can  be  safely  said  that  no  one  is 
better  versed  in  real  estate  values  in  Southern  California  than  he.  He  is 
a  specialist  in  subdivision  property.  He  has  built  over  six  hundred  houses 
in  this  section,  having  developed  the  Lawndale  district,  between  Los  Angeles 
and  Redondo,  and  also  the  Western  Avenue  and  Jefferson  Street  district. 

For  the  last  two  years  he  has  been  handling  the  famous  Cudahy  Ranch 
under  the  name  of  the  Southgate  Gardens,  a  tract  of  about  two  thousand 
acres  adjoining  Los  Angeles  on  the  south.  By  1919  a  quarter  of  this  property 
had  been  sold.  Development  work  began  on  the  ranch  property  in  1917, 
and  within  less  than  two  years  it  has  been  completely  transformed,  now  having 
broad  paved  avenues,  with  sewers,  electric  light  and  all  modern  improve- 
ments, and  many  of  the  avenues  are  lined  by  attractive  homes,  the  grounds 
being  subdivided  in  half-acre  units.  Besides  the  Southgate  Gatrdens  sub- 
division as  a  whole,  there  is  a  town-site  of  Southgate,  opened  March  1,  1918, 
and  now  well  developed  with  stores,  churches  and  schools. 

The  South  Park  Garden  district  is  a  very  ambitious  project,  involving 
1,000  acres,  located  south  of  the  new  Goodyear  Rubber  Company  plant,  which 
will  give  employment  to  about  seven  thousand  men.  South  Park  Gardens  is 
divided  into  Mr.  Hopper's  favorite  unit,  a  half  acre  of  ground,  with  all  city 
improvements,  a  low  price  and  good  transportation. 

Mr.  Hopper  knows  how  to  market  property  and  get  it  placed  with  the 
right  class  of  people,  so  that  satisfaction  is  insured  to  all  concerned.  He  has 
been  author  of  some  of  the  most  effective  advertising  campaigns  employed 

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in  the  development  and  sale  of  Southern  California  property.  He  has  five 
real  estate  offices,  including  those  at  Ocean  Park,  Whittier  and  Santa  Ana. 
His  main  office,  at  611  South  Hill  Street,  on  the  ground  floor  of  the  Con- 
solidated Realty  Building,  is  said  to  be  the  largest  and  finest  real  estate  office 
on  the  Pacific  Coast,  and  the  best  equipped  subdivision  office  in  the  West, 
or  west  of  Chicago,  though  probably  not  even  Chicago  has  any  office  of  the 
kind  that  equals  it.  The  office  is  exceedingly  large,  with  6,000  square  feet 
of  floor  space,  has  special  auditorium  for  lectures  and  moving  pictures,  and 
this  auditorium  is  used  every  Tuesday  and  Thursday  evenings  and  has  been 
the  medium  for  a  great  deal  of  educational  instruction  regarding  the  citrus 
district.  Mr.  Hopper  operates  three  automobile  excursions,  with  a  free  ranch 
dinner,  every  Tuesday,  Thursday  and  Saturday,  and  altogether  he  furnishes 
a  dollar's  worth  of  service  for  every  dollar  he  receives  as  commission. 

Mr.  Hopper  is  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Realty  Board,  the  Los  Angeles 
Chamber  of  Commerce,  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club,  California  Club,  Los  Angeles 
Country  Club,  Gramercy  Tennis  Club,  and  is  a  republican.  But  the  organi- 
zation where  his  name  is  especially  enshrined  is  the  Automobile  Club  of 
Southern  California.  He  helped  organize  this  club,  and  in  the  capacity  of 
secretary  and  treasurer  for  about  four  years  was  the  individual  chiefly  re- 
sponsible for  making  it  a  real  club,  developing  its  membership  from  30  to  2,000. 
Most  of  the  real  work  of  increasing  the  membership  and  building  up  the 
organization  was  done  in  Mr.  Hopper's  real  estate  office  as  a  pastime  from 
his  other  duties.  In  recognition  of  what  he  did  for  the  club,  he  was  made 
an  honorary  member  for  life,  with  no  dues  to  pay.  He  is  also  a  director  and 
one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Inglewood  Park  Cemetery  Association,  which 
has  one  of  the  largest  sites  for  cemetery  purposes  in  California.  Mr.  Hopper's 
recreation  is  in  golf  and  tennis  and  in  real  estate. 

His  home  is  at  716  South  Manhattan  Place.  He  married  Miss  Helen  Mac- 
Donald,  of  Columbus,  Ohio,  at  Los  Angeles,  June  28,  1909.  She  was  born 
and  educated  in  Ohio,  but  finished  her  schooling  in  Los  Angeles.  Mrs.  Hopper 
is  a  member  of  the  Friday  Morning  Club  of  Los  Angeles.  They  have  two 
native  daughters  of  Los  Angeles,  Virginia  and  Elizabeth. 


JBamel  ©'Comtell  JWcCartjjp 


ITH  proper  regard  to  his  experiences  and  achievement,  it  is 
permitted  to  call  the  late  Daniel  O'Connell  McCarthy  one 
of  the  most  useful  citizens  of  California.  He  was  much  more 
than  a  pioneer  and  early  settler,  founder  of  the  first  morn- 
ing newspaper,  and  a  picturesque  personality.  He  came  of 
fighting  stock,  and  all  his  fighting  was  done  on  the  side  of 
constructive  ideals  and  plans  that  resulted  in  many  benefits 
of  his  home  state,  perhaps  not  properly  appreciated  at  the 
present  day. 

Daniel  O'Connell  McCarthy  was  born  at  Raleigh,  North  Carolina,  August 
24,  1830,  a  son  of  Maurice  McCarthy.  His  ancestry  goes  back  to  remote 
antiquity,  to  the  time  when  the  Spanish  stock  was  blended  with  the  native 
Celts  of  Ireland.  He  was  descended  from  a  line  of  Irish  kings  of  Munster. 
One  of  the  family,  McCormick  McCarthy,  in  1476  owned  Blarney  Castle. 
One  of  the  early  kings  of  Munster  was  Carthack,  which  later  was  changed 
to  McCarthy.  Another  king  was  Justin,  in  1093,  and  later  on  in  modern  times 
we  find  Justin  McCarthy,  who  was  a  second  cousin  of  Daniel  O'Connell  Mc- 
Carthy. The  late  Mr.  McCarthy  was  also  descended  through  his  mother 
(Bridget  O'Hea)  from  two  noble  and  illustrious  houses  in  the  Province  of 
Munster,  in  the  County  of  Cork.  Their  magnificent  estate,  together  with 
those  of  the  McCarthy  family,  were  all  confiscated  in  the  rage  of  religious  per- 
secution, and  to  the  lineal  descendants  nothing  remained  except  their  name 
and  religion.  The  coat  of  arms  of  the  O'Hea  family  and  that  of  the  McCarthy 
family  were  united  in  one  combined  design,  now  in  the  possession  of  the 
families.    The  motto  is:    "To  the  strong  and  faithful  nothing  is  difficult." 

Mr.  McCarthy's  parents  were  married  in  Ireland,  where  their  first  child 
was  born.  When  the  family  came  to  America  they  settled  in  western  North 
Carolina,  and  subsequently  removed  to  Columbus,  Mississippi,  where  both  par- 
ents died  when  the  oldest  child  was  only  fourteen  years  old.  The  loss  seemed 
irreparable,  for  not  only  was  the  father  an  honorable  and  useful  citizen,  de- 
voted to  his  family,  but  the  mother  was  a  woman  of  rare  culture  and  refinement, 
of  noble  character  and  of  great  personal  beauty. 

The  children,  with  names  and  dates  of  birth,  are  briefly  noted  as  follows : 
Maurice,  born  in  Ireland  in  1820;  "Yankee"  James,  born  in  America  in 
1822,  and  died  in  infancy;  James  Barry  McCarthy,  1824;  Michael  O'Hea, 
1826;  Mary  Barry,  1828;  Daniel  O'Connell,  1830;  Catherine,  1832;  John 
Harvey,  1834,  and  Jeremiah  Crowley,  1835. 

Daniel  O'Connell  McCarthy  was  educated  in  the  common  schools  of  Co- 
lumbus, Mississippi.  At  the  age  of  fourteen  he  was  appointed  commissary 
clerk  by  Capt.  William  Barksdale,  and  went  with  his  commander  to  Mexico 
at  the  time  of  the  war  between  the  United  States  and  Mexico.  In  1848  he 
was  stationed  on  General  Taylor's  line.  At  the  conclusion  of  peace  he  located 
at  San  Antonio,  Texas,  engaged  in  mercantile  business  and  remained  in  that 
city  until  1850.  In  September,  1850,  he  organized  a  company  of  young  men, 
and  as  captain,  interpreter  and  commissary  general  conducted  them  overland 
to  California,  and  immediately  went  to  the  mining  districts  of  Tuolumne 

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County.  He  spent  two  years  in  placer  mining,  and  then  engaged  in  stock 
raising  and  other  lines  of  business  until  1858.  Selling  out  his  interests,  he 
became  a  merchant  in  the  Town  of  Sonora  and  was  also  extensively  engaged 
in  quartz  mining. 

Sonora,  the  town  where  he  was  established  in  business,  was  then  the  center 
for  that  considerable  body  of  Southerners  and  pro-slavery  people  who  em- 
ployed every  expedient  to  range  California  on  the  side  of  the  South.  A 
Southerner  himself  by  birth  and  training,  Mr.  McCarthy  had  none  of  the 
characteristic  attitude  of  those  people  toward  our  political  institutions.  He 
had  no  interest  in  slavery  and  the  Union  of  the  States  was  one  of  the  first 
articles  in  his  creed  and  faith.  As  an  appropriate  means  of  expressing  this 
faith  in  the  Union  cause,  he  was  left  to  establish  in  1860  a  newspaper  at  Sonora, 
the  title  of  which  pioneer  journal  was  The  American  Flag.  It  was  founded 
entirely  upon  the  basis  and  spirit  of  personal  patriotism  and  unselfish  love 
of  country,  and  its  publication  was  continued  under  circumstances  of  perse- 
cution and  injustice.  In  the  end  The  American  Flag  became  one  of  the  chief 
instruments  for  the  winning  of  California  to  the  side  of  the  Union.  It  is  well 
recognized  by  historical  authorities  that  when  the  people  of  California  voted 
to  enter  the  Union  as  a  free  state,  the  cause  of  the  Union  was  fortified  as  it 
had  been  by  no  previous  event  for  twenty  years.  The  American  Flag  was  not 
only  the  first  morning  newspaper  in  the  state,  but  was  the  first  radical  Union 
newspaper,  and  during  the  Civil  war  was  considered  a  deciding  factor  in  the 
refusal  of  California  to  secede  with  the  Southern  states.  It  was  also  the  first 
advocate  of  woman's  suffrage  in  the  state. 

One  of  the  first  acts  of  the  "Union  State  Convention,"  meeting  at  Sacra- 
mento in  1863,  and  composed  of  600  representatives  from  all  parts  of  the 
state,  was  to  pass  a  resolution,  amid  enthusiastic  cheering,  endorsing  The 
American  Flag  as  a  newspaper  true,  energetic  and  reliable  for  its  advocacy 
of  the  great  measures  and  principles  of  the  Union  party  in  this  state,  and 
that  we  do  hereby  commend  it  to  the  confidence  and  support  of  all  loyal  men. 
At  the  same  time  there  were  forty-two  other  papers  in  the  state  supporting 
the  Union  party. 

Soon  afterward,  at  the  written  request  of  a  large  number  of  leading  Union 
men  of  the  state,  Mr.  McCarthy  moved  his  paper  to  San  Francisco  and  estab- 
lished it  as  a  daily  journal.  Even  by  its  bitter  enemies  The  American  Flag 
was  considered  to  be  the  most  brilliant  and  fearless  journal  ever  published 
on  this  coast. 

Mr.  McCarthy  was  nominated  for  state  printer,  a  very  important  and 
lucrative  office,  but  owing  to  the  combined  opposition  of  jealous  newspapers, 
who  placed  two  independent  republican  candidates  in  the  field,  he  was  de- 
feated, though  running  5,000  votes  ahead  of  his  ticket. 

While  publisher  in  San  Francisco,  the  owner  of  The  American  Flag  started 
one  of  the  first  newspaper  agitations  in  the  United  States.  An  effort  was 
being  made  to  pass  the  Pacific  Contract  Law.  Corruption  was  charged  against 
the  State  Legislature.  This  resulted  in  the  arrest  of  Mr.  McCarthy.  He  was 
later  released  and  feted  by  hundreds  of  supporters.  It  was  also  The  Amer- 
ican Flag  that  first  published  the  news  of  the  assassination  of  Lincoln  in: 
California. 

Soon  after  giving  up  his  journalistic  career,  Mr.  McCarthy  removed  to 
San  Diego  in  1870,  investing  in  real  estate.  He  also  became  interested  in 
the  wonderful  Burrow  silver  mining  district  of  New  Mexico,  where  he  located 
several  claims  and  organized  a  company,  acquiring  timber  properties,  water 
privileges  and  laying  out  towns  and  railway  routes.  He  was  one  of  the  first 
to  locate  silver  mines  in  Silver  City,  New  Mexico.  In  the  meantime  the  man 
he  had  left  in  charge  of  his  interests  at  San  Diego  had  mismanaged  them, 
so  that  his  presence  for  several  years  was  required  in  restoring  order  to  Cali- 
fornia affairs.    In  the  meantime  a  large  part  of  his  rights  and  acquisitions 


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in  New  Mexico  were  lost.  During  those  years  he  proved  a  leader  and  man 
of  vision  in  promoting  a  number  of  large  undertakings,  and  while  he  expe- 
rienced numerous  vicissitudes,  the  failures  were  due  chiefly  to  the  inevitable 
inability  of  one  man  to  thoroughly  control  and  direct  issues  involving  widely 
separated  groups  and  responsibilities. 

At  San  Diego  he  served  as  president  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  (at  that 
time  practically  mayor  of  the  city)  and  was  instrumental  in  building  the  first 
railroad  into  that  city.  Later  he  was  engaged  in  mining  in  Lower  California, 
and  in  1882  removed  from  San  Diego  to  his  ranch,  Siempreviva,  and  became 
interested  in  stock  raising  and  farming.  While  president  of  Mount  Tecarte 
Land  and  Water  Company  at  San  Diego  in  1892,  he  went  to  the  City  of  Mexico 
and  obtained  a  concession  from  President  Diaz  to  bring  a  portion  of  the  water 
across  Mexican  territory.  A  tribute  to  the  far-sighted  genius  of  Mr.  Mc- 
Carthy is  found  in  an  editorial  recently  published  in  The  San  Diego  Union  and 
quoted  herewith  for  the  value  it  has  in  supplementing  this  brief  biography : 
"H.  N.  Savage,  hydraulic  engineer,  and  three  newspaper  men  stood  on  the 
site  of  the  Barrett  dam  last  Wednesday  afternoon,  discussing  the  work  which 
will  be  necessary  in  the  erection  of  this  last  link  in  the  construction  of  San 
Diego's  water  system.  Mr.  Savage  was  relating  the  history  of  the  dam  site. 
'You  speak  of  vision  in  great  engineering  projects,'  he  said,  'of  the  romance 
and  imagination  behind  it  all,  and  you  have  mentioned  the  Panama  Canal, 
the  mighty  Assouan,  the  Roosevelt  and  the  Shoshone;  but  right  where  we 
stand  is  as  fine  an  example  of  that  sort  of  thing  as  I  know.  Here,  in  the  early 
'80s,  a  man  visioned  this  Barrett  dam ;  he  even  started  the  work  with  that 
bit  of  stone  parapet  down  there.  This  man's  vision  saw  the  future  need  of 
San  Diego ;  he  had  supreme  confidence  in  the  potentialities  of  the  little  city, 
then  no  more  than  a  village ;  he  knew  that  eventually  a  great  seaport  metropolis 
would  cover  the  shores  of  San  Diego  Bay ;  and  he  hoped  to  see  the  realiza- 
tion of  what  to  others  was  only  a  dream.'  So  the  story  went  on  until  one 
of  the  newspaper  men  asked  the  name  of  this  visionary.  'His  name,'  said 
Mr.  Savage,  'was  D.  0.  McCarthy.' 

"At  that  very  moment  the  man  who  had  located  and  started  the  con- 
struction of  the  Barrett  dam  more  than  thirty-five  years  ago  was  lying  dead 
in  his  Los  Angeles  home.  He  had  passed  away  while  his  name  was  on  the 
lips  of  men  who  were  contemplating  his  dream  at  the  inception  of  its  full 
realization. 

"The  coincidence  does  not  end  here.  McCarthy's  interest  in  the  Barrett 
dam  site  passed  from  him  to  E.  S.  Babcock,  and  thence  to  the  control  of  the 
city  that  he  had  visioned  as  he  worked  in  that  outlet  gorge  to  a  water  shed 
with  an  area  of  130  square  miles.  In  the  meantime  the  Morena  dam  was 
built  by  John  D.  Spreckels,  whose  original  purpose  was  to  build  the  first  dam 
of  his  system  at  Barrett.  One  of  the  newspaper  men  in  the  inspecting  group 
was  connected  with  the  San  Diego  Union,  owned  by  John  D.  Spreckles.  The 
San  Diego  Union  in  1900  absorbed  the  plant  of  the  Morning  Call ;  the  Morn- 
ing Call  had  been  the  San  Diego  Vidette;  D.  0.  McCarthy  established  the 
Vidette  in  the  fall  of  1893.  He  was  the  owner  of  that  newspaper  when  he 
dreamed  the  Barrett  dam. 

"There  are  cycles  in  human  affairs  as  in  the  physical  functions  of  the 
natural  order;  and  it  is  complete  in  this  instance.  The  legacy  of  D.  0.  Mc- 
Carthy's vision  has  passed  from  dream  to  dream  through  devious  ways  until 
it  came  back  to  him  by  the  impulse  of  his  own  desire — on  his  deathbed.  The 
Barrett  dam  will  be  built  by  other  hands  than  those  which  laid  its  founda- 
tion ;  but  those  hands  are  guided  by  the  same  vision  that  inspired  the  pur- 
pose of  the  man  who  saw  it  first.  Within  the  area  of  that  vision  lies  347 
square  miles  of  watershed,  all  converging  to  the  Lower  Otay  reservoir,  and 
when  the  Barrett  dam  is  finished,  the  city  that  D.  0.  McCarthv  visioned  will 
have  a  water  storage  capacity  of  48,550,000,000  gallons,  16,000,000,000  gallons 
of  which  will  be  stored  behind  the  mighty  wall  of  the  Barrett  dam. 


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"It  is  the  men  with  vision  who  build  empires  and  move  the  world.  Dreams 
come  true  for  those  who  know  how  to  dream." 

Mr.  McCarthy  lived  at  Los  Angeles  from  1901,  and  until  a  few  years  be- 
fore his  death  was  engaged  in  the  real  estate  business.  He  was  a  republican, 
and  it  is  said  that  he  never  missed  voting  after  California  became  a  state. 
He  voted  for  Lincoln,  and  during  the  Blaine  campaign  of  1884  it  is  said  that 
he  rode  fifty  miles  on  horseback  to  cast  his  ballot.  December  1,  1909,  he  was 
admitted  to  life  membership  in  the  Archaeological  Institute  of  America  at 
Washington.  Mr.  McCarthy  was  elected  an  honorary  member  of  the  Burbank 
Society.  The  monumental  work  entitled  "Luther  Burbank,  his  Methods  and 
Discoveries  and  their  Practical  Appliance,"  contains  on  the  page  following 
the  title:  "Dedicated  to  Daniel  0.  McCarthy,  Honorary  Member  of  the  Luther 
Burbank  Society." 

During  the  Civil  war  a  cousin  of  Mr.  McCarthy,  Major  General  Barry, 
served  on  General  Sherman's  staff.  A  brother  of  Mr.  McCarthy  on  the  other 
hand  was  in  the  Confederate  army,  Major  Maurice  McCarthy.  Mary  Barry 
McCarthy,  a  sister  of  Mr.  McCarthy,  came  from  Holly  Springs,  Mississippi, 
to  visit  her  brother  and  his  wife  in  Sonora,  Tuolumne  County.  While  here 
she  met  and  was  married  to  Col.  B.  F.  Moore,  an  uncle  of  Mrs.  Daniel  Mc- 
Carthy, and  one  of  the  great  criminal  lawyers  of  California,  a  framer  of  the 
State  Constitution.  Maj.  Maurice  McCarthy  and  his  sister  Mrs.  Katherine 
McCarthy  Hill  are  given  credit  for  originating  the  American  holiday,  Decora- 
tion or  Memorial  Day.  Mrs.  Hill,  at  Columbus,  Mississippi,  had  begun  dec- 
orating graves  of  southern  soldiers  who  had  fallen  in  the  war,  and  later,  on  the 
first  Memorial  Day  after  the  war,  her  brother  Major  McCarthy  suggested  that 
they  do  the  same  for  northern  boys.  Their  action  attracted  wide  attention, 
and  later  a  society  was  formed  which  set  aside  a  particular  dav  to  perform 
the  ceremony  and  eventually  the  institution  spread  until  it  became  a  national 
holiday.  This  incident  inspired  Judge  Francis  Miles  Finch  to  write  the  beau- 
tiful poem  "The  Blue  and  the  Gray."  As  to  who  and  what  city  first  sug- 
gested and  did  decorate  both  southern  and  northern  graves  was  a  question  at 
one  time  involving  a  lively  controversy.  A  strenuous  claim  to  the  honor  was 
laid  by  Columbus,  Georgia,  but  after  careful  investigation  it  was  proved  that 
the  custom  originated  in  the  kindly  offices  of  Major  McCarthy  and  his  sister, 
Mrs.  Hill,  as  just  noted.  Maj.  Maurice  McCarthy  has  a  daughter,  Katherine 
McCarthy  Chamberlin,  a  resident  of  Los  Angeles. 

At  San  Francisco,  December  16,  1857,  Mr.  McCarthy  married  Amanda 
Anderson,  a  native  of  Mobile,  Alabama,  daughter  of  Mathew  and  Lucinda 
(Moore)  Anderson,  and  of  an  old  colonial  southern  family.  Her  family  home 
was  in  a  suburb  to  Mobile.  The  Andersons  were  of  Scotch  extraction.  Mrs. 
McCarthy  when  a  girl  of  aboiit  sixteen  came  with  her  parents  from  the  South 
by  way  of  the  Isthmus  of  Panama.  Thence  the  steamer,  the  old  Brother 
Jonathan,  an  old  time  sidewheeler,  carried  them  to  San  Francisco.  The  boat 
became  delayed  and  was  many  days  over  due  when  it  sailed  into  the  Golden 
Gate  of  San  Francisco,  and  the  surrounding  hills  were  covered  with  crowds 
to  greet  the  vessel  and  its  passengers  almost  given  up  for  lost.  Thus  Mrs. 
McCarthy,  too,  was  a  California  pioneer. 

Mrs.  McCarthy  died  December  31,  1911,  while  Mr.  McCarthy  passed  away 
after  three  days'  illness  on  August  13,  1919.  He  was  a  man  wonderfully 
preserved  for  all  his  years  and  experiences,  was  erect  in  carriage  and  in  ap- 
pearance many  years  younger  than  he  really  was.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  McCarthy 
had  twelve  children,  only  two  of  whom  are  now  living:  John  Harvey  McCarthy, 
a  real  estate  dealer  of  Los  Angeles,  and  Mary  Barry  McCarthy  of  Los  Angeles. 
Mr.  McCarthy  possessed  a  wonderful  personality.  His  was  a  lovable  character, 
a  sweet  and  gentle  nature,  fond  of  children  and  loved  by  them  as  well  as  by 
men  of  note.  He  was  the  soul  of  generosity  and  observed  the  strictest  honesty 
in  all  his  dealings. 


<£ugene  & ermain 


NE  of  the  oldest  commercial  institutions  in  Los  Angeles  is  the 
Germain  Seed  and  Plant  Company,  whose  founder  was  the 
late  Eugene  Germain.  He  established  his  home  at  Los  Angeles 
fifty  years  ago,  and  was  a  man  of  wide  and  influential  re- 
lationships with  the  city  until  his  death. 

He  was  born  in  the  French  part  of  Switzerland,  Novem- 
ber 30,  1849.  Educated  in  public  schools  and  the  college  at 
Lausanne  until  he  was  twenty,  he  then  came  to  New  York  City 
and  after  a  short  time  went  West  to  Los  Angeles  by  way  of  Panama.  His 
first  enterprise  in  California  was  a  restaurant,  but  soon  afterward  he  opened 
a  grocery  store  and  gradually  developed  the  commission  business  then  known 
as  the  Germain  Fruit  Company.  While  it  was  a  general  commission  firm,  an 
important  feature  was  the  handling  of  seed,  nursery  stock,  wines,  and  the 
operation  of  a  fruit  packing  plant  at  Santa  Ana.  Eugene  Germain  continued 
as  president  of  the  business  until  1893.  President  Cleveland  appointed  him 
United  States  Consul  to  Switzerland  for  a  term  of  four  years,  and  during 
his  absence  the  business  was  left  in  charge  of  a  manager.  On  returning  to 
Los  Angeles  he  sold  the  wine  department  to  his  brother,  Edward,  and  the 
commission  business  to  Loeb-Fleishman  &  Company,  and  thereafter  concen- 
trated his  attention  upon  the  seed  and  nursery  features  under  the  name  Ger- 
main Seed  &  Plant  Company.  In  this  line  he  continued  active  until  his  death 
in  1909,  when  his  son  succeeded  him. 

April  2,  1872,  at  Los  Angeles,  Eugene  Germain  married  Caroline  Sievers. 
They  had  five  children:  Edmund,  of  Brooklyn,  New  York,  deceased;  Lillian, 
wife  of  C.  A.  J.  Sharman,  of  Alberta,  Canada ;  Clare,  at  home ;  and  Marc  L. 

Eugene  Germain  was  the  first  president  of  the  Board  of  Trade,  one  of 
the  first  vice  presidents  of  the  Los  Angeles  Chamber  of  Commerce,  and  a  di- 
rector and  officer  in  many  other  important  institutions.  He  was  a  Mason  and 
Odd  Fellow,  a  member  of  the  Jonathan  Club,  a  charter  member  of  the  Cali- 
fornia Club,  and  a  democrat  in  politics. 

Marc  L.  Germain,  who  was  born  at  Los  Angeles,  August  20,  1882,  attended 
the  local  public  schools  to  the  age  of  nine,  and  during  his  father's  residence 
abroad  attended  the  schools  at  Zurich,  Switzerland.  He  finished  his  educa- 
tion in  Yale  University,  graduating  in  1904.  On  returning  to  Los  Angeles 
he  became  associated  with  his  father  in  the  Germain  Seed  &  Plant  Company, 
and  as  noted  above,  succeeded  him  as  president  in  1909.  Eugene  Germain 
has  also  been  responsible  for  much  building  improvement  in  Los  Angeles. 
Some  of  the  buildings  erected  by  him  were  the  Germain  Block  on  Los  Angeles 
Street,  near  Requena  Street,  a  building  on  Los  Angeles  between  First  and 
Second  streets,  another  at  the  northwest  corner  of  Fourth  and  Los  Angeles 
streets,  the  Germain  Hotel  at  Tenth  and  Hope  streets,  the  Germain  Building 
at  224  South  Spring,  a  large  building  at  the  southeast  corner  of  Twelfth  and 
Main  streets,  and  a  building  on  Main  near  Second  Street,  on  part  of  the  prop- 
erty on  which  the  Albert  Cohn  store  is  now  located. 

The  Germain  business  was  originally  located  in  the  J.  Kurtz  Building 
at  First  and  Main  streets,  but  in  1899  was  moved  to  326-330  South  Main  Street. 
In  1918  a  separation  was  made  between  the  wholesale  and  retail  departments, 
the  retail  being  located  at  Sixth  and  Main  streets  and  the  wholesale  at  the 
Terminal  Market. 

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Slexanber  jWUlarb  Jfillmore  jfHcCollougf),  ffl.M. 

'.^ ^'^-X'^P^C 1  ANY  interests  came  to  know  and  appreciate  the  services  of  the 
^{ji  _  4^,  late  Doctor  McCollough,  not  only  as  a  practicing  physician 
il^jj  but  as  a  very  enterprising  and  original  business  man,  who 
left  his  mark  on  many  affairs  of  Southern  California.  He 
came  to  Los  Angeles  about  a  quarter  of  a  century  ago,  with 
a  wide  and  successful  experience  as  a  physician  and  business 
man. 

Doctor  McCollough  was  born  at  Malaga,  Ohio,  Novem- 
ber 26,  1852,  and  died  at  Los  Angeles  August  19,  1909.  His  parents  were 
Dr.  J.  G-.  and  Margery  McCollough.  He  early  determined  to  follow  the  same 
profession  as  his  father.  After  getting  his  public  school  education  he  entered 
the  Jefferson  Medical  College,  from  which  he  graduated  in  1876,  and  was  also 
graduated  at  Cincinnati,  Ohio.  For  several  years  he  practiced  at  Catlin, 
Illinois.  In  the  early  '80s  he  went  to  the  boom  town  of  Wichita,  Kansas, 
and  was  one  of  the  physicians  of  that  city  until  1888.  Removing  to  the  North- 
west he  retired  from  his  profession,  and  at  Tacoma,  Washington,  organized 
the  Union  Savings  Bank  and  Trust  Company  and  served  as  its  president 
until  1892. 

Doctor  McCollough  came  to  Los  Angeles  in  1892,  and  after  several  years 
of  partial  retirement  went  East  in  1895,  taking  post-graduate  work  at  the 
New  York  Polyclinic  for  six  months,  intending  at  that  time  to  open  a  hospital 
at  Los  Angeles.  On  returning  West  he  resumed  active  practice  and  was  one 
of  the  reliable  and  successful  physicians  of  Los  Angeles  until  1904. 

In  the  meantime  he  had  colonized  a  tract  of  land  known  as  "The  Bend 
Colony"  in  Tehama  County,  California.  In  1894  in  Old  Mexico  he  spent  a 
winter  with  his  wife  and  son  intending  to  develop  a  coffee  plantation,  but 
dissatisfaction  among  his  partners  caused  him  to  return  to  California.  In 
1905  he  extended  his  capitalistic  efforts  to  Central  America,  purchasing  a 
banana  plantation  in  Costa  Rica  as  representative  of  Mr.  Frederick  W.  Rindge. 
After  that  he  was  identified  with  a  number  of  enterprises  in  Los  Angeles  and 
vicinity,  including  the  California  City  Land  Company,  which  subdivided  the 
Jacob  Raneho  in  Kings  County.  He  also  laid  out  the  high  school  addition 
to  Lindsay,  California,  and  was  owner  of  some  orange  groves  in  Riverside 
County.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  secretary  of  the  Alvarado  Oil  Com- 
pany, which  had  leases  in  the  Midway  oil  field  of  Kern  County,  of  which  he 
was  an  organizer.  He  was  one  of  the  early  physicians  connected  with  the 
Conservative  Life  Insurance  Company  of  Los  Angeles  and  was  its  medical 
examiner.  This  company  was  later  consolidated  with  the  Pacific  Mutual  of 
California.  Doctor  McCollough  was  a  Knight  Templar  and  Scottish  Rite  Ma- 
son and  Shriner  and  a  member  of  all  the  leading  medical  societies.  He  was 
a  republican  and  a  Presbyterian. 

April  24,  1879,  he  married  Miss  Emma  A.  McClenathan  at  Catlin,  Illinois. 
She  was  the  daughter  of  George  E.  and  Sarah  (Penn)  Remley  McClenathan. 
This  was  one  of  the  old  families  of  Northeastern  Illinois,  settling  near  Chi- 
cago when  there  were  only  3,000  people  in  that  city.  Doctor  McCollough  and 
wife  had  two  children,  Vernon  C.  and  Vernita.  The  latter  lives  in  Los  An- 
geles with  her  widowed  mother  and  is  one  of  the  city's  well  known  and  talented 
musicians. 

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Vernon  C.  ifHtCollougt) 


ERNON  C.  McCOLLOUGH  in  a  brief  lifetime  compressed  many 
activities  sufficient  to  give  his  name  an  honored  place  beside 
that  of  his  father.  He  was  born  at  Wichita,  Kansas,  January 
20,  1886,  was  educated  at  Los  Angeles  in  the  public  schools 
and  the  Harvard  Military  School,  attended  the  University  of 
Southern  California  and  Stanford  University  until  1908,  and 
took  his  law  work  in  the  University  of  Southern  California 
until  1910.  After  that  he  studied  law  with  E.  W.  Freeman 
until  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1912. 

In  the  meantime  his  father's  death  had  forced  him  into  the  lead  in  various 
business  enterprises  and  much  of  his  time  was  taken  up  with  practical  affairs 
rather  than  law  practice.  He  was  secretary  of  the  California  City  Land  Com- 
pany and  thus  became  identified  with  the  ownership  and  subdivision  of  the 
old  Jacob  Rancho  of  15,000  acres  in  Kings  County,  which  was  entirely  sold 
out  to  the  settlers.  The  company  gave  every  assistance  to  its  purchasers  in 
their  start  and  early  struggles.  The  company  collected  all  of  its  contracts 
and  had  not  a  single  foreclosure.  As  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  Alvarado 
Oil  Company  Vernon  MeCollough  had  much  to  do  with  the  early  develop- 
ment of  the  Taft-Midway  field.  The  leases  of  this  company  were  involved 
in  the  former  Gypsum  contest  and  presidential  withdrawal  orders,  but  after 
numerous  hearings  and  several  years  in  the  land  office  at  Washington  patents 
were  issued  to  the  company  for  the  land.  The  MeCollough  Investment  Com- 
pany, of  which  Vernon  MeCollough  was  secretary,  dealt  exclusively  in  its  own 
property.  He  was  also  secretary  of  the  Soffel  Drug  Company,  vice  president 
of  the  Porterville  Alfalfa  Farm  Company,  which  engaged  in  alfalfa  raising 
and  dairying  in  Tulare  County.  Mr.  MeCollough  was  a  member  of  the  South- 
ern California  Lodge  of  Masons,  the  Phi  Delta  Phi  college  fraternity,  and 
was  a  republican  and  Presbyterian. 

In  1918  he  was  putting  his  affairs  in  order  with  a  view  to  entering  Camp 
Riley  at  the  time  the  armistice  was  signed.  In  order  to  do  his  utmost  as  a 
patriotic  citizen  he  had  also  put  in  a  large  tract  of  320  acres  of  wheat  and 
conducted  a  dairy  on  his  ranch  at  Porterville.  He  worked  hard,  undermining 
his  strength,  and  on  December  11th,  having  returned  home  from  the  ranch 
exhausted  with  his  labors  he  was  stricken  with  influenza  and  passed  away 
December  22,  1918. 


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P.  Jf.  Darnell 

F.  YARNELL,  who  died  at  Los  Angeles,  August  1,  1918,  had 
been  a  resident  of  Southern  California  for  over  forty  years, 
coming  here  in  early  childhood.  Born  at  Lewistown,  Iowa, 
December  24,  1872,  he  was  three  years  of  age  when  his  par- 
ents came  to  California.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was 
probably  the  oldest  and  best  known  contractor  and  appraiser 
in  the  city.  He  had  been  engaged  in  that  line  of  business  for 
fifteen  years,  and  was  considered  an  authority  on  all  matters 
relating  to  appraising  and  adjusting  otf  fire  losses.  His  father  was  a  pioneer 
builder  at  Los  Angeles  and  the  son  took  up  and  developed  the  same  line  of 
business. 

Mr.  Yarnell  was  reared  in  Los  Angeles,  was  a  graduate  of  the  City  High 
School  and  from  that  school  joined  his  father  in  the  building  and  contracting 
business. 

Mr.  Yarnell  had  a  genius  for  friendship.  He  had  those  personal  quali- 
fications, more  particularly  an  unselfish  interest  in  others,  which  brought  him 
hosts  of  admirers,  not  only  from  among  his  business  associates  but  all  classes 
of  men.  Few  representatives  of  the  prominent  families  of  this  state  were  better 
known  than  B.  F.  Yarnell.  His  works  of  commerce  and  charity  will  long 
stand  as  a  monument  to  his  memory  and  the  vacancy  in  many  circles  will  not 
soon  be  filled.  For  one  term  he  served  as  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Board 
of  Education,  was  a  member  of  the  Union  League  Club,  Merchants  and  Manu- 
facturers Association,  Los  Angeles  Chamber  of  Commerce  and  the  Blue  Goose 
and  other  social  and  business  organizations.  He  was  buried  under  the  auspices 
of  the  Masonic  Order. 

Besides  the  business  and  good  name  he  left  to  his  family  a  wonderful 
ranch  of  820  acres  in  San  Diego  County.  The  B.  F.  Yarnell  Company  since 
the  death  of  its  founder  has  been  continued  by  Mrs.  Yarnell,  with  the  assistance 
of  her  son  William  G.  and  Mr.  W.  L.  Wolfskill,  an  associate  of  Mr.  Yarnell 
for  a  number  of  years. 

February  1,  1899,  Mr.  Yarnell  married  Miss  Laura  A.  Griffith  at  River- 
side, California.  She  was  born  in  St.  Joseph,  Missouri,  was  educated  there 
to  the  age  of  twelve  years,  when  she  came  to  California  with  her  parents, 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  U.  Griffith,  and  here  finished  her  education.  Her  father  was  a 
prominent  business  man  of  St.  Joseph,  Missouri.  At  the  death  of  her  hus- 
band Mrs.  Yarnell  was  left  with  four  children,  two  sons  and  two  daughters: 
William  G.,  Lillian  R.,  Burtron  F.,  Jr.,  and  Virginia  L.,  all  of  whom  were 
born  in  the  old  family  home  at  Los  Angeles  on  South  Union  Avenue.  This 
residence  was  built  by  Mr.  Yarnell,  and  besides  it  he  owned  considerable  local 
real  estate  including  two  beautiful  summer  homes,  one  at  Sierra  Madre  at  the 
foot  of  Mount  Wilson,  and  the  other  at  Hermosa  Beach. 


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JATHANIEL  BLAKE  BLACKSTONE,  the  founder,  president 
and  general  manager  of  the  N.  B.  Blackstone  Company  until 
1918,  was  born  at  Livermore,  Maine,  January  20,  1843,  son  of 
Nathaniel  and  Mary  (Sawyer)  Blackstone.  His  parents,  who 
spent  all  their  lives  in  Maine,  were  old  fashioned  New  Eng- 
land Christian  people.  His  father  was  a  farmer.  Nathaniel 
B.  was  the  youngest  of  nine  children,  four  sons  and  five  daugh- 
ters, and  is  the  last  survivor.  His  home  and  early  environment 
were  calculated  to  bring  out  his  self  reliance  and  industry.  He  left  school 
at  the  age  of  seventeen,  and  at  Brockton,  Massachusetts,  laid  the  founda- 
tion of  his  experience  in  dry  goods  as  an  employe  of  H.  W.  Robinson.  Five 
years  later  he  went  to  Boston,  became  an  employe  of  a  wholesale  dry  goods  house, 
and  eventually  rose  to  a  partnership  in  the  firm  of  Ewing  Bros.  &  Company. 

Mr.  Blackstone  came  to  Los  Angeles  in  February,  1887,  and  became  as- 
sociated with  his  brother-in-law  the  late  J.  W.  Robinson  in  the  Boston  Store. 
In  1895  Mr.  Blackstone  opened  a  store  of  his  own  under  the  name  N.  B.  Black- 
stone Company.  As  a  merchant  he  has  had  several  different  locations,  his 
first  business  being  on  Spring  Street  near  Temple  opposite  the  old  Courthouse. 
From  there  he  moved  to  the  corner  of  Third  and  Spring  in  the  Douglass  Build- 
ing when  it  was  first  built,  next  to  Broadway  between  Third  and  Fourth,  and 
was  there  ten  years  until  the  handsome  new  building  now  known  as  Black- 
stone's  was  erected  and  opened  on  September  20,  1917.  Each  move  being  to 
secure  larger  and  finer  quarters  as  well  as  better  location  for  the  increased 
business.  Mr.  Blackstone  continued  actively  associated  with  the  affairs  of 
this  company  until  1918,  when  he  sold  out  his  business  and  retired  after  serv- 
ing fifty-eight  years  in  the  dry  goods  business. 

For  several  years  he  was  a  director  of  the  National  Bank  of  California 
and  now  is  a  director  of  the  Merchants  National  Bank.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Los  Angeles  Chamber  of  Commerce,  and  in  former  years  was  an  active 
worker  and  one  of  the  directors  of  that  organization.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
California  Club  of  Los  Angeles,  of  the  National  Republican  Club  of  New 
York  City,  the  Maine  Society  of  California,  and  in  the  First  Congregational 
Church  was  a  trustee  for  ten  years,  holding  that  position  when  the  church 
edifice  was  built.  His  home  is  at  the  corner  of  West  Twenty-eighth  Street 
and  Orchard  Avenue,  a  residence  which  he  built  twenty-six  years  aeo. 

Mr.  Blackstone  was  as  fortunate  in  his  home  life  as  he  was  in  business. 
On  September  29,  1917,  he  and  his  good  wife  celebrated  their  golden  wedding 
anniversary.  Their  marriage  was  celebrated  at  Brockton,  Massachusetts,  Sep- 
tember 29,  1867.  The  bride  was  Miss  Louise  Robinson,  a  daughter  of  H.  W. 
Robinson,  in  whose  store  Mr.  Blackstone  had  acquired  his  first  business  ex- 
perience. She  was  a  sister  of  the  late  J.  W.  Robinson,  long  prominent  in 
Los  Angeles  mercantile  circles.  Mrs.  Blackstone  was  born  at  Stow,  Massa- 
chusetts, and  was  educated  in  public  schools  and  the  Lasell  Seminary  at  Au- 
burndale,  Massachusetts,  where  she  and  her  husband  lived  for  seventeen  years 
before  coming  to  California.  Mrs.  Blackstone  died  November  25,  1918.  While 
her  ambition  never  extended  beyond  her  home,  intimate  friends  and  church, 

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she  cultivated  many  charitable  interests,  which  engaged  her  time  and  means 
for  a  number  of  years.  Two  children  were  born  to  their  marriasre.  The 
daughter,  Anne  Louise,  died  at  the  age  of  eight  years.  The  son,  H.  Winthrop 
Blackstone,  was  born  in  Auburndale,  Massachusetts.  For  fifteen  years  he 
was  vice  president  of  the  N.  B.  Blackstone  Company. 


3Jofjn  &.  TOlson 

John  K.  Wilson,  superintendent  of  Blackstone 's  and  for  thirty-two  years 
an  active  business  associate  of  Mr.  N.  B.  Blackstone,  may  be  said  to  have  begun 
his  Los  Angeles  career  with  disappointment  and  defeated  hopes.  Stories  of 
fortunes  won  overnight  in  real  estate  had  lured  him  from  the  Middle  West, 
but  the  tide  had  turned  before  he  arrived  in  Los  Angeles  in  1887  and  with 
the  bursting  of  the  boom  he  found  it  necessary  to  accommodate  his  glowing 
expectations  to  the  modest  rewards  of  a  mercantile  clerk. 

Mr.  Wilson  was  born  on  a  farm  near  New  Madison,  Ohio,  ."J^anuary-  24^ 
1858,  son  of  Nathaniel  M.  and  Mary  Emily  (Rush)  Wilson.  His  mother  is 
still  living  in .  Los  Angeles  with  her  son,  John,  in  good  health  at  the  age  of, 
eighty-three  and  an  active  member  of  the  Emanuel  Presbyterian  Church.  Nath- 
aniel M.  Wilson  was  for  many  years  a  farmer  and  stockman  in  Ohio  and  played 
quite  an  active  part  in  democratic  politics  in  that  state.  In  1887  he  brought  his. 
family  to  California,  living  in  Los  Angeles  three  years,  and  in.  1890  located  on 
a  300  acre  tract  in  San  Diego  County.  That  tract  he  developed  by  the  plant- 
ing of  olive  trees  and  gave  it  the  name  Olive  Hill  Ranch.  It  was  the  family 
home  for  eleven  years,  and  later  the  parents  returned  to  Los  Angeles  where 
Nathaniel  M.  Wilson  died  in  1901  at  the  age  of  sixty-nine.  He  still  owned 
the  ranch  at  the  time  of  his  death.  As  a  stock  man  he  has  specialized  in  the 
breeding  of  Poland  China  hogs  and  Durham  cattle. 

John  K.  Wilson  had  only  the  normal  opportunities  and  advantages  of  an 
Ohio  .country  boy.  He  went  to  school  in  tbe  winter,  worked  on  the  farm  in, 
summer,  and  from  1874  until  he  graduated  in  1878  attended  the  high  school 
of  Greenville,  Ohio.  Afterwards  while  learning  merchandising  he  attended  . 
a  business  college  in  Greenville.  Beginning  in  1879  he  served  a  three  year's 
apprenticeship  in  the  dry  goods  store  of  George  W.  Moore  in  Greenville.  The 
first  year  he  was  paid  board  and  $100  and  his  salary  was  increased  $100  each 
year  until  the  end  of  the  apprenticeship.  After  four  years,  with  a  vision  of 
better  things  in  the  West,  he  moved  in  1883  to  Southern  Kansas.  There  he 
became  a  buyer  and  shipper  of  grain.  Pour  years  in  that  state  was  a  period 
of  many  vicissitudes  involving  grasshoppers,  drought  and  hot  winds.  There- 
fore when  he  arrived  in  Los  Angeles  he  had  been  well  schooled  to  bear  up 
under  the  disappointment  in  wait  for  him  due  to  the  collapse  of  the  real  estate 
boom.  Soon  afterwards  he  utilized  his  former  training  and  experience  and 
entered  the  store  of  J.  W.  Robinson,, at  that  time  located  on  Spriner  near  Temple 
Street.  J.  W.  Robinson  had  as  his  partner  and.  associate  his  brother-in-law... 
N.  B.  Blackstone.  Mr.  Wilson  spent  eight  years  with  the  J.  W.  Robinson  Com- 
pany. Then  .he  and  Mr.  Blackstone  and  C.  A.  Smith  incorporated  a  new  husi-. 
ness  under,  the  title  N.  B.  Blackstone  Company,  in  February,  1896.  .  They 
occupied  the  room  recently  vacated  by  the  J.  W.  Robinson  Company,  who  had  , 
moved  to  South  Broadway.  The  Blackstone  Company  has  followed  the  south- 
ward trend  of  the  city,  and  during  the  last  twenty-five  years  fitted  up  four 
stores.  In  1917  the  company  entered  its  present  quarters  at  Broadway  and 
Ninth,  a  building  with  six  floors  and  basement  and  with  100,000  square  feet 
of  floor  space.  As  an  exclusive  shop  for  all  the  fine  wares  comprehended  under 
the  term  dry  goods,  Blackstone's  stands  pre-eminent  on  the  Pacific  Coast. 
Mr.  Wilson  held  various  positions  of  responsibility  with  the  J.  W.  Robinson 


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Company,  and  during  his  association  with  Mr.  Blackstone  has  been  manager 
and  director,  was  buyer  for  several  departments,  and  is  still  a  director  in  the 
company  as  well  as  superintendent  of  the  business  in  general.  Mr.  Wilson 
is  also  owner  of  some  valuable  industrial  property  at  Eighth  and  Santa  Fe. 
In  politics  he  was  reared  a  democrat,  but  has  been  a  republican  in  national 
affairs  since  1896.  For  many  years  he  has  been  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles 
Athletic  Club  and  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

At  Greenville,  Ohio,  September  3,  1884,  he  married  Miss  Caroline  Stephens, 
daughter  of  Martin  Franklin  and  Alvira  (Leibe)  Stephens.  Her  father  was  a 
dry  goods  merchant,  and  for  many  years  one  of  the  influential  republicans 
of  the  State  of  Ohio.  In  the  Stephens  family  were  six  children,  five  daughters 
and  one  son.  The  son  is  now  Governor  of  California,  Hon.  William  Dennison 
Stephen,  whose  individual  biography  is  found  on  other  pages  of  this  publica- 
tion. Mrs.  Wilson  is  a  member  of  the  Friday  Morning  Club  of  Los  Angeles. 
Their  only  son  and  child  is  Weston  Stephens  Wilson.  He  is  a  graduate  of 
Leland  Stanford  University  with  the  class  of  1913  and  is  unmarried.  His 
special  talent  has  been  music,  and  he  is  both  a  composer  of  music  and  a  writer 
of  operas  and  songs,  much  of  his  work  having  earned  national  fame.  He  is 
a  member  of  the  firm  Daniels  &  Wilson,  music  publishers  of  San  Francisco 
and  New  York,  and  he  divides  his  time  largely  between  those  two  cities. 

Mr.  John  K.  Wilson  was  one  of  seven  children,  five  sons  and  two  daughters, 
all  of  whom  reached  mature  years.  He  is  the  oldest  of  the  four  still  living. 
His  only  sister  is  Mrs.  James  P.  Martin,  of  Corvallis,  Oregon.  His  two  brothers 
are  Charles  A.,  who  has  charge  of  the  University  Branch  postoffice  at  Los 
Angeles,  and  N.  E.,  a  Los  Angeles  grocer.  His  brother,  Dr.  A.  P.  Wilson, 
youngest  of  the  family,  became  a  prominent  physician  in  Los  Angeles  and 
was  accidentally  shot  in  July,  1916,  while  camping  in  the  high  Sierras,  near 
Fresno. 


OSES  NATHAN  AVERY,  president  and  a  director  of  the  Guar- 
anty Trust  &  Savings  Bank,  is  one  of  the  best  known  bankers 
in  Southern  California,  and  is  looked  to  for  advice  and  sug- 
gestions in  business  matters  by  thousands  of  Los  Angeles  resi- 
dents, especially  among  those  substantial  citizens  of  long 
residence  who  have  been  acquainted  with  him  socially  and 
through  business  for  so  many  years. 

For  "Dr.  Avery,"  as  he  is  known  to  his  friends,  though 
a  graduate  physician,  was  one  of  the  founders,  in  1890,  of  the  banking  in- 
stitution which  has  now  become  through  growth  and  expansion  the  "Guaranty 
Bank. ' '  He  has  been  continually  connected  with  it  ever  since ;  for  many  years 
its  executive  head;  and  its  history  has  been  one  of  steady,  conservative  growth 
in  resources  and  influence,  until  now  it  is  one  of  the  important  banks  of  the 
Pacific  Coast,  with  aggregate  resources  of  more  than  thirty-four  million  dollars 
(March,  1920),  rendering  through  its  trust  and  other  departments  a  complete 
departmental  banking  service. 

Doctor  Avery  was  born  at  Lyndon,  Washtenaw  County,  Michigan,  a  son 
of  Nathan  and  Matilda  (Rockwell)  Avery.  His  father,  who  was  a  native  of 
Elmira,  New  York,  came  to  Southern  Michigan  in  1832,  being  one  of  the 
pioneers  in  that  state.  Doctor  Avery  is  a  descendant  of  the  Groton  Averys, 
a  noted  family  of  New  England,  and  one  of  Doctor  Avery's  kinsmen,  Elroy 
M.  Avery  of  Cleveland,  has  compiled  and  published  the  family  genealogy  and 
history  under  the  title,  "The  Groton  Avery  Clan." 

Moses  Nathan  Avery  finished  his  high  school  course  at  Chelsea,  Michigan, 
in  1875,  and  at  the  age  of  seventeen  taught  his  first  term  of  district  school. 
School  teaching  in  winter  and  farming  in  the  summer  were  the  stepping  stones 
by  which  he  reached  his  profession.  He  continued  this  varied  occupation 
until  he  entered  the  Universitv  of  Michigan,  in  1879,  and  was  graduated  M.  D. 
in  1881. 

He  practiced  medicine  at  Niles,  Michigan,  for  eight  years. 

Doctor  Avery  is  a  republican  in  politics,  a  Presbyterian,  a  member  of 
the  California  Club,  and  the  Los  Angeles  Chamber  of  Commerce.  July  14, 
1880,  at  Waterloo,  Michigan,  he  married  Sarah  Elizabeth  Gorton,  daughter 
of  Aaron  T.  Gorton.  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Avery  have  two  children,  Florence  Lucile 
and  Dr.  Lewis  Gorton  Avery. 


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etitoarb  a.  Clampitt 

DWARD  A.  CLAMPITT,  who  died  at  his  home  in  Los  Angeles, 
September  25,  1919,  had  for  several  years  been  the  largest  in- 
dependent individual  oil  operator  and  owner  of  oil  property 
in  California.  In  his  death  the  oil  industry  lost  its  best  friend, 
was  the  opinion  of  his  associates  and  friends,  who  had  re- 
garded him  as  an  able  counselor  in  all  matters  affecting  the 
general  welfare  of  the  petroleum  industry.  He  was  a  man 
of  strong  friendship,  was  a  vigorous  fighter  for  the  rights  of 
his  friends,  as  well  as  his  own,  and  no  man  could  have  done  more  for  the  pro- 
motion of  the  legislation  for  oil  interests  and  oil  wells.  Mr.  Clampitt 's  hold- 
ings in  Los  Angeles  and  Orange  Counties  and  in  Bakerfield  were  of  consider- 
able area. 

He  was  born  in  Macon  County,  Illinois,  December  14,  1868,  a  son  of  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  J.  A.  Clampitt,  who  are  still  living  in  Los  Angeles.  Edward  A. 
Clampitt  came  to  Los  Angeles  in  1888,  and  from  that  time  until  a  few  days 
before  his  death  was  continuously  engaged  in  some  phase  of  the  oil  business. 
He  was  an  oil  driller,  and  helped  bring  in  some  of  the  greatest  oil  fields  in 
the  Southwest.  Among  his  activities  were  the  operation  of  about  forty  wells 
in  the  old  Los  Angeles  city  field.  For  many  years  he  was  a  director  of  the 
Columbia  Oil  Producing  Company,  and  was  organizer  and  owner  of  the  E.  A. 
Clampitt  Company  of  Los  Angeles.  Only  a  brief  time  before  his  death  he  was 
appointed  counselor  of  the  American  Petroleum  Institute.  He  had  some  sev- 
eral hundred  acres  in  the  Newhall  District,  where  many  wells  are  operated. 

Mr.  Clampitt  worked  very  hard,  but  enjoyed  each  day  of  life  as  he  lived 
it.  He  liked  work  and  he  also  threw  himself  with  enthusiasm  into  his  play  and 
recreation.  He  was  devoted  to  his  family  and  home  and  he  exhibited  a  broad 
interest  in  the  general  welfare.  While  he  was  a  member  of  the  city  council 
at  Los  Angeles  he  did  much  to  give  employment  to  the  unemployed,  and  in  the 
general  industrial  organization  under  his  immediate  supervision  he  sought 
constantly  to  extend  better  pay  and  better  working  conditions  to  his  men. 
While  he  was  what  might  be  called  a  practical  business  man,  Mr.  Clampitt  long 
recognized  those  forces  and  influences  that  are  classified  as  spiritual.  He 
understood  better  than  most  men  some  of  the  spiritual  conditions  underlying 
the  problems  of  economical  unrest.  A  short  time  before  his  death,  in  a  con- 
versation with  his  pastor,  Rev.  Mr.  Monkman,  Mr.  Clampitt  expressed  his 
belief  that  the  world  restorative  must  be  supplied  by  the  churches  in  the 
spirit  of  brotherly  love,  one  of  their  foundation  principles,  the  practice  of 
which  would  serve  better  than  anything  else  to  stabilize  humanity  during  the 
process  of  reconstruction. 

Mr.  Clampitt  was  elected  a  member  of  the  City  Council  in  1906  and  filled 
that  office  for  three  years.  In  respect  for  his  public  services,  the  city  govern- 
ment of  Los  Angeles  made  special  recognition  at  the  time  of  his  funeral  which 
was  very  largely  attended  by  his  multitude  of  friends,  including  bankers,  lawyers 
and  nearly  all  the  members  of  the  city  government. 

Genuine  grief  at  his  passing  by  strong  men,  and  later  many  letters  of 
condolence  and  expression  of  personal  loss  came  from  distant  points,  and 

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numerous  newspapers  over  the  country  also  paid  tribute  to  the  passing  of  a 
good  friend  and  upright  man.  His  funeral  was  preached  by  his  friend  and 
pastor,  Rev.  Dr.  Locke  of  the  First  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  and  Rev. 
Mr.  Monkman  of  the  Union  Avenue  Methodist  Episcopal  Church.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  the  Chamber  of  Mines  and  Oils,  the 
Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club,  the  Elks,  the  Masons,  and  the  Knights  of  Pythias. 

The  late  Mr.  Clampitt  married  Miss  Margaret  M.  Wright.  Mrs.  Clampitt 
and  two  children  survive,  Leah  Margaret  and  Barbara  Hallam  Clampitt.  Mrs. 
Clampitt,  who  has  long  been  prominent  socially  in  Los  Angeles,  is  a  daughter 
of  Herman  and  Nancy  (Hallam)  Wright.  Both  parents  died  in  the  East. 
Mrs.  Clampitt  was  born  in  Livingston  County,  Illinois.  Her  father  was  a  mer- 
chant and  for  many  years  conducted  a  hotel  at  Washington,  Pennsylvania.  It 
is  recorded  that  this  hostelry  was  the  gathering  place  for  all  the  best  people 
of  the  historic  section  of  Pennsylvania  in  which  they  lived.  Especially  on 
"court  days"  the  city  of  Washington  was  crowded  with  people  from  the 
surrounding  districts  and  the  best  county  families  would  dine  and  meet 
socially  in  the  "Hotel  Court."  Mrs.  Clampitt,  through  her  mother,  is  de- 
scended from  the  distinguished  Hallam  family,  originally  of  Windsor,  Eng- 
land, many  of  whose  members  have  gained  distinction  in  art  and  letters.  Mrs. 
Clampitt 's  ancestors  were  also  early  Americans.  Her  great-grandfather  Hal- 
lam built  the  first  theater  in  Philadelphia.  Her  father  was  a  member  of  the 
prominent  Wright  family  of  Maryland,  extensive  land  owners,  who  prior  to 
the  Revolution  settled  around  Baltimore  and  Hagerstown. 

Mrs.  Clampitt  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Kansas  and  the 
Normal  University  of  Salina,  Kansas.  She  has  been  a  member  of  the  Ebell 
Club  of  Los  Angeles  since  1904,  the  Wednesday  Morning  Club  since  1902,  and 
for  a  number  of  years  was  a  member  of  the  Averill  Club  and  was  one  of  the 
organizers  of  the  literary  La  Comarada  Club.  During  the  period  of  the  war 
she  was  chairman  of  the  Food  Committee  in  her  precinct  and  was  active  in 
sugar  distribution. 

Mrs.  Clampitt 's  parents  had  a  number  of  children,  but  Mrs.  Clampitt 
and  her  sister,  Mrs.  Rae  Johnson,  alone  reside  in  Los  Angeles.  Rae  Wright 
married  Harry  T.  Johnson,  who  for  years  had  been  a  close  personal  friend 
and  business  associate  of  Mr.  Clampitt  and  is  now  general  manager  of  all  the 
Clampitt  properties.  Mrs.  Rae  Johnson  during  the  war  was  active  in  united 
war  work  and  Liberty  Loan  campaigns,  serving  as  chairman  of  the  committee 
in  her  precinct,  her  home  being  precinct  headquarters.  She  has  always  taken 
much  interest  in  politics,  especially  since  suffrage  was  conferred  upon  the 
women  of  California.  She  was  for  a  time  a  school  teacher  and  is  a  member 
of  the  Ebell  Club,  and  with  her  sister,  Mrs.  Clampitt,  helped  organize  the 
La  Comarada  Club.  Mrs.  Johnson  and  her  husband  were  actively  connected 
with  Mr.  Clampitt 's  work  and  Mr.  Johnson  was  in  charge  of  the  development 
and  operation  of  the  holdings  of  Mr.  Clampitt  in  the  Newhall  district.  Mrs. 
Clampitt  and  Mrs.  Johnson  all  their  lives  have  been  very  close  and  intimate 
in  their  interests  and  activities. 


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Spencer  Amity 


FENCER  H.  SMITH  was  an  annual  visitor  in  Southern  Cali- 
fornia for  a  number  of  years,  and  from  1906  until  death 
owned  the  beautiful  home  on  West  Adams  Street,  where  his 
widow  now  resides.    He  died  November  28,  1917. 

His  many  friends  in  Southern  California  recognize  in 
Mr.  Smith  a  character  of  great  personal  charm  and  of  the 
dignity  conferred  by  many  years  of  successful  business  ex- 
perience and  the  transaction  of  large  and  important  affairs. 
He  was  born  in  New  York  City  March  4,  1829,  of  English  parentage.  His 
father,  who  had  come  to  this  country  in  1802,  acquired  much  property  in  the 
East.  At  one  time  in  his  career  he  planned  to  come  West,  but  because  of  his 
wife's  health  he  remained  in  New  York,  where  he  was  a  manufacturer,  and  also 
owned  a  farm  in  Harlem. 

Spencer  H.  Smith  was  educated  at  Mrs.  Fairchild's  School,  at  Plainfield, 
New  Jersey.  His  brilliant  mind  brought  him  rapid  advancement  in  his  studies 
and  every  instructor  advised  him  to  study  law  and  become  a  lawyer.  When 
he  was  sixteen  years  of  age  his  father  gave  him  the  choice  of  going  to  college 
and  completing  a  law  course  or  an  extended  trip  to  England,  upon  which  his 
father  was  then  embarking.  He  chose  the  experience  abroad,  and  after  his 
return  engaged  in  business  with  his  father. 

Later  he  retired  from  this  business  and  became  actively  associated  with 
his  father-in-law,  Mr.  Walter  Bowne,  in  handling  the  latter 's  large  estate.  Mr. 
Bowne  gave  him  his  confidence,  consulted  and  talked  with  him  freely.  For 
a  time  Mr.  Smith  was  president  of  the  Flushing  Railroad  when  Mr.  Bowne 
owned  that  property.  In  1859  he  was  made  one  of  the  trustees  at  the  incor- 
poration of  the  Queen's  County  Savings  Bank,  at  Flushing,  Long  Island,  and 
at  the  first  meeting  was  elected  treasurer  for  1859-60,  and  again  filled  the  same 
position  in  1863-64. 

During  his  early  life  Mr.  Smith  took  a  prominent  part  in  the  New  York 
National  Guard,  serving  as  a  member  of  the  Seventh  Regiment,  New  York 
Militia,  and  later  joined  Squadron  A,  of  which  he  was  colonel.  At  the  out- 
break of  the  Civil  war  he  sent  the  first  regiment  out  of  New  York  when  the 
call  came  for  the  Home  Guard.  He  was  extremely  anxious  to  go  with  them, 
but  his  wife  and  her  father,  Mr.  Bowne,  opposed  it,  much  to  his  disappoint- 
ment. Immediately  after  the  war  he  went  South  to  attend  to  some  business 
for  Mr.  Bowne,  his  trip  taking  him  as  far  as  New  Orleans.  As  he  was  an 
American  only  one  generation  removed  from  England,  and  had  the  appear- 
ance and  manners  of  a  typical  Englishman,  the  Southerners  in  his  presence 
showed  none  of  the  restraint  and  hostility  which  they  expressed  before  North- 
ern men,  and  he  therefore  gained  an  early  intimate  view  of  Southern  condi- 
tions immediately  after  the  great  war.  Mr.  Smith  was  quick-witted  had  a 
great  fund  of  humor,  and  was  a  splendid  entertainer  in  social  converse.  He 
knew  all  the  prominent  men  of  his  time  in  New  York,  and  to  the  last  was  noted 
for  his  retentive  memory.  Like  most  Englishmen,  he  was  an  excellent  horse- 
man, and  for  many  years  kept  a  stable  of  splendid  horses.    He  was  a  republi- 

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can  in  politics,  a  member  of  the  Episcopal  faith,  and  belonged  to  the  Union 
League  Club  of  New  York  City  and  the  California  Club  of  Los  Angeles. 

He  spent  his  first  winter  in  California  in  1887,  and  after  that  sojourned 
in  the  state  every  winter,  and  in  1906  bought  a  house  and  made  California  his 
permanent  home.    He  also  acquired  considerable  other  property  in  the  West. 

Mr.  Smith's  first  wife  was  Eliza  Bowne,  daughter  of  Walter  Bowne  and 
granddaughter  of  Walter  Bowne,  mayor  of  New  York.  She  died  at  San 
Gabriel  in  1892.  Her  two  daughters  are  Mrs.  Charles  W.  Carpenter  of  New 
York  and  Mrs.  Samuel  Freeman  of  New  York. 

The  present  Mrs.  Smith  before  her  marriage  was  Miss  Catherine  Dallett, 
a  daughter  of  Gillies  Dallett  of  Philadelphia.  Mr.  Dallett  was  a  prominent 
Eastern  banker,  at  one  time  president  of  the  Penn  National  Bank  of  Phila- 
delphia. Mrs.  Smith  resides  in  the  home  which  Mr.  Smith  purchased  on  West 
Adams  Street,  a  delightful  spot,  the  gardens  being  walled  away  from  the 
street  and  adorned  with  many  beautiful  plants  and  shrubs,  while  the  house  is 
a  complete  expression  of  comfort  and  good  taste. 


ROM  his  arrival  in  California,  in  1852,  until  his  death,  nearly 
fifty  years  later,  Andrew  Glassell,  Sr.,  was  almost  constantly 
busied  with  his  professional  and  business  responsibilities,  and 
enjoyed  a  career  that  easily  ranked  him  among  the  great 
lawyers  of  the  state. 

He  was  the  fourth  in  direct  succession  to  bear  the  name 
Andrew  Glassell.  The  first  was  a  Scotchman,  and  the  second 
founded  the  family  in  Virginia.  Andrew  Glassell  was  the  last 
survivor  of  the  six  children  of  Andrew  and  Susan  (Thornton)  Glassell.  He 
was  born  in  the  ancestral  home  known  as  Torthorwald,  in  Virginia,  September 
30,  1827.  When  he  was  seven  years  old  he  was  taken  to  Sumter  County,  Ala- 
bama, where  his  father  became  a  cotton  planter  near  Livingston.  At  the  age 
of  seventeen  he  entered  the  University  of  Alabama  and  was  graduated  in 
1848.  On  being  admitted  to  the  bar  he  began  general  practice  and  soon  ac- 
quired the  friendship  and  interests  of  Hon.  John  A.  Campbell,  at  one  time 
justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States. 

In  1852  Mr.  Glassell  left  Alabama  to  cast  his  fortunes  with  the  new  state 
of  California.  He  brought  with  him  a  letter  from  Judge  Campbell,  and  that 
gave  him  admission  to  the  bar  of  the  Supreme  Court,  and  he  quickly  proved 
himself  the  possessor  of  the  many  high  qualities  noted  in  the  recommendation. 
Soon  after  coming  to  the  state  he  was  appointed  a  deputy  of  the  United  States 
district  attorney  at  San  Francisco.  During  that  time  he  had  special  duties 
in  connection  with  handling  land  cases.  After  three  years  in  that  office  he 
resumed  private  practice  in  San  Francisco,  and  continued  his  profession  in 
that  city  until  the  war.  Being  of  Southern  ancestry  and  sympathies,  he  found 
it  impossible  for  him  to  take  the  test  oath,  and  temporarily  closed  his  law  office 
during  the  war.  While  that  struggle  was  going  on  he  engaged  in  running  a 
steam  saw  mill  and  manufacturing  lumber  and  staves  near  Santa  Cruz. 

After  the  war  Mr.  Glassell  resumed  his  profession,  with  Los  Angeles  as 
his  home  and  headquarters.  Here  he  entered  a  partnership  with  Alfred  B. 
Chapman,  a  friend  of  his  boyhood  and  at  one  time  an  officer  in  the  regular 
army.  For  a  time  the  firm  was  Glassell  &  Chapman,  and  on  January  1,  1870, 
Colonel  George  H.  Smith  became  a  member,  and  a  later  partner  was  Henry  M. 
Smith,  subsequently  a  judge  of  the  Superior  Court  of  Los  Angeles  County. 
In  1879  Mr.  Chapman  retired  to  his  fruit  ranch,  and  later  George  S.  Patton, 
a  nephew  of  Mr.  Glassell,  was  admitted  as  a  junior  partner.  In  1883  Mr. 
Glassell  retired  to  enjoy  his  declining  years  in  leisure. 

During  his  residence  in  San  Francisco  Mr.  Glassell  married  Lucy  Toland. 
Her  father,  Dr.  H.  H.  Toland,  was  at  one  time  head  of  the  medical  department 
of  the  University  of  California.  To  their  marriage  were  born  nine  children: 
Susan  G.,  who  became  the  wife  of  H.  M.  Mitchell,  and  is  now  deceased:  Minnie 
G.,  Mrs.  Harrington  Brown  of  Los  Angeles;  Hugh;  Andrew;  William  T.,  de- 
ceased ;  Louise  G.,  widow  of  Dr.  J.  DeBarth  Shorb,  of  Los  Angeles ;  Philip  H., 
deceased;  Alfred  L.,  deceased,  and  Lucien,  deceased. 

Mrs.  Lucy  Glassell  was  born  in  South  Carolina  and  was  a  mere  child  when 
brought  to  California.    She  died  at  the  age  of  thirty-nine  years.    She  was  a 

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member  of  the  Catholic  Church.  Six  years  after  her  death  Mr.  Glassell  mar- 
ried for  his  second  wife,  Mrs.  Virginia  Micou  Ring  of  New  Orleans.  She  died 
at  Los  Angeles  in  1897. 

Andrew  Glassell  passed  away  at  his  home  in  Los  Angeles,  January  28, 
1901.  Of  the  many  tributes  paid  to  his  memory,  none  contains  so  much  of 
history  and  of  impressive  record  as  a  memorial  adopted  by  the  Los  Angeles 
Bar  Association,  and  prepared  by  a  committee  comprising  Stephen  M.  White, 
A.  M.  Stephens,  A.  W.  Hutton,  J.  R.  Scott  and  J.  A.  Graves.  The  following 
are  excepts  from  that  memorial : 

"At  all  times  since  the  formation  of  the  co-partnership  of  Glassell  & 
Chapman  down  to  the  time  of  Mr.  Glassell's  retirement,  the  firm  of  which  he 
was  the  head  enjoyed  a  large  and  lucrative  practice.  He  and  his  co-partners 
were  favorably  known  throughout  the  state,  and  especially  in  this  section, 
and  they  were  usually  retained  on  one  side  or  the  other  of  every  important 
civil  suit  tried  in  this  county  and  vicinity.  The  records  of  the  several 
tribunes,  state  and  federal,  abound  with  evidence  demonstrating  the  extent 
and  importance  of  the  litigation  so  ably  conducted  by  and  under  the  super- 
vision of  Mr.  Glassell.  And  to  these  records  reference  is  made  as  the  highest 
and  best  evidence  of  his  reputation,  worth  and  ability  as  a  lawyer.  Not  only 
was  the  firm  of  Glassell  &  Chapman  active  practitioners  of  law,  but  did  much 
to  develop  and  improve  this  section  of  the  state.  They  did  not,  as  so  many 
owners  of  large  tracts  of  land  have  done,  wait  to  become  rich  by  and  through 
the  enterprise  of  others,  but  in  all  matters  calculated  to  induce  emigration 
and  improve  Southern  California  they  were  foremost.  One  instance  of  their 
deals  in  real  estate  may  be  cited.  About  1868  they  became  the  owners  of  a 
large  tract  of  land  in  the  Rancho  Santiago  de  Santa  Ana.  This  tract  was  sub- 
divided and  a  large  irrigating  canal  constructed  to  conduct  the  waters  of  the 
Santa  Ana  River  to  farming  lands  and  the  town  of  Richland,  which  was  laid 
out  by  them,  and  the  land  offered  for  sale  upon  terms  the  most  favorable  for 
settlers.  This  little  town  of  Richland  is  now  the  city  of  Orange.  The  canal 
has  from  time  to  time  been  extended  and  enlarged,  until  today  it  forms  a  large 
part  of  the  property  of  the  Santa  Ana  Valley  Irrigation  Company  and  a  por- 
tion of  the  finest  system  of  irrigation  in  the  southern  part  of  the  state. 

"Mr.  Glassell  was  one  of  the  incorporators  and  for  many  years  preceding 
his  death  was  one  of  the  directors  of  the  Farmers  and  Merchants  Bank  of 
Los  Angeles.  He  also  took  part  in  the  organization  of  the  Los  Angeles  City 
Water  Works  Company  in  1868  and  continued  to  be  one  of  its  large  stock- 
holders. About  the  same  year  the  firm  of  Glassell  &  Chapman  acted  as  attor- 
neys in  the  incorporation  of  the  Los  Angeles  &  San  Pedro  Railway  Company, 
by  which  company  the  present  railroad  in  Los  Angeles  was  constructed.  They 
were  the  attorneys  continuously  until  the  road  was  transferred  to  the  South- 
ern Pacific  Railroad  Company,  when  the  firm  became  local  attorneys  for  the 
latter  company. 

"As  a  lawyer  and  as  a  man  he  was  scrupulously  honest,  direct  in  his 
methods,  open  and  frank  in  all  his  dealings,  and  towards  the  members  of  the 
bar  always  extremely  courteous  and  affable,  but  at  the  same  time  in  the  trial 
of  a  case  bold  and  vigorous.  He  was  generous  and  was  liberal  to  the  young 
men  who  entered  the  profession  through  his  office,  and  more  than  one  member 
of  your  committee  remembers  with  gratitude  his  kindness,  helpfulness  and 
generosity,  and  it  is  most  pleasing  now  to  remember  that  in  all  their  inter- 
course with  him  they  can  not  recall  one  single  coarse  expression  or  single  in- 
stance in  which  even  for  a  moment  he  laid  aside  the  bearing  of  a  gentleman. 
He  was  a  sound  lawyer,  amply  versed  in  the  principles  of  his  profession  and 
thoroughly  posted  as  to  precedents  affecting  the  questions  in  hand.  He  was 
a  safe  adviser  and  practical  rather  than  brilliant.  He  was  not  an  orator,  but 
always  terse,  clear  and  forcible  in  argument.  He  was  at  all  times  thoroughly 
prepared  at  trial,  and  in  the  preparation  acted  upon  the  theory  that  he  is  the 


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best  lawyer  who  drafts  his  pleading  and  other  papers  so  thoroughly  as  to 
leave  no  weak  points  for  the  attacks  of  his  adversary.  In  his  dealings  with 
his  debtors  he  was  merciful  and  forbearing,  often  refusing  or  remitting  th« 
debt  when  its  enforcement  might  have  seemed  to  be  harsh.  Each  member  of 
your  committee  has  personally  known  Mr.  Glassell  for  more  than  a  quarter 
of  a  century  and  can  without  reservation  attest  that  they  never  heard  ex- 
pressed any  suspicion  of  the  man.  By  devotion  to  his  profession  and  by  rare 
business  sagacity  he  accumulated  a  large  fortune,  but  by  far  the  richest  legacy 
he  leaves  behind  him  is  the  reputation  which  he  earned  by  a  lifelong  course  of 
honest  dealing  in  his  professional  and  business  career.  Notwithstanding  his 
retirement  from  the  practice,  his  life  was  a  laborious  one  and  full  of  respon- 
sibilities, and  is  said  by  one  who  was  near  to  him  in  his  later  days  that  he  was 
ready  to  lay  down  the  burdens  of  life  and  rest." 


Snbreto  <0la**ell,  V 


NDREW  GLASSELL,  V,  whose  business  interests  at  Los 
Angeles  have  been  chiefly  in  subdivision  and  development 
work,  is  a  son  of  Andrew  Glassell,  the  distinguished  California 
lawyer,  whose  career  has  been  reviewed,  and  his  wife,  Lucie 
Goodwin  (Toland)  Glassell,  daughter  of  the  late  Dr.  H.  H. 
Toland  of  San  Francisco. 

Andrew  Glassell,  V,  was  born  at  San  Francisco,  October 
20,  1860.  He  graduated  from  the  Los  Angeles  High  School 
in  1879,  continued  his  education  by  private  study,  and  for  two  years  was  a  law 
student.  Ill  health  caused  him  to  abandon  his  intention  of  becoming  a  lawyer, 
and  he  retired  to  the  country  and  became  a  practical  farmer.  Mr.  Glassell  con- 
tinued farming  until  about  1906,  in  which  year  he  put  out  his  first  subdivision, 
"Glassell  Park."  His  business  in  subdividing  continued  until  1912,  and  he 
still  retains  a  large  interest  in  the  Glassell  Development  Company,  and  also  has 
three  hundred  and  fifty  acres  in  and  near  Glassell  Park,  in  the  city  of  Los 
Angeles,  a  portion  of  which,  containing  one  hundred  and  ten  acres,  he  has  re- 
cently subdivided  and  put  upon  the  market. 

Mr.  Glassell  is  a  democrat  in  his  political  affiliation.  March  31,  1886,  he 
married  Miss  Rietta  M.  Ring,  daughter  of  George  P.  and  Virginia  (Micou) 
Ring,  of  New  Orleans.  At  the  time  of  her  marriage,  Mrs.  Glassell 's  mother, 
Virginia  M.  Ring,  was  the  second  wife  of  the  late  Andrew  Glassell,  Sr.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Glassell  had  three  children :  Andrietta,  who  became  the  wife  of 
Milton  Clark  Somers ;  Virginia,  who  died  at  the  age  of  twelve  years,  and  Wil- 
liam Micou,  who  married  Margaret  Dagmar  Sheerer. 


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ERMAN  WASHINGTON  FRANK,  president  of  the  Harris  & 
Frank  Company,  one  of  the  oldest  and  largest  commercial 
houses  on  the  Pacific  Coast,  concerned  himself  so  intimately 
with  the  affairs  of  the  institutions  of  Los  Angeles  during  the 
last  thirty  years  that  his  name  has  come  to  be  associated  not 
with  any  one  line  of  business  or  civic  activity,  but  with  the 
growth  and  welfare  of  Los  Angeles  as  a  whole. 

Mr.  Frank  is  a  Western  man,  having  been  born  at  Port- 
land, Oregon,  July  4,  1860.  His  father  was  a  pioneer  merchant,  establishing 
himself  in  business  at  Portland  as  early  as  1854.  H.  W.  Frank  was  well  edu- 
cated, attending  Whitman  Seminary,  now  Whitman  College,  at  Walla  Walla, 
Washington.  When  only  fourteen  years  old  he  began  his  business  career  in  a 
country  store.  The  experience  may  have  been  monotonous  at  times,  but  the 
training  was  invaluable,  since  it  gave  him  a  first-hand  knowledge  of  many 
branches  of  commerce.  He  served  as  assistant  postmaster,  telegraph  operator, 
and  also  as  assistant  agent  for  Wells  Fargo  &  Company.  One  of  the  first  mes- 
sages he  ever  received  over  the  telegraph  wire  was  one  telling  of  the  nomina- 
tion of  Rutherford  B.  Hayes  in  1876.  This  message  he  posted  on  the  windows 
of  the  store  for  the  information  of  the  local  rustics. 

About  that  time,  in  1876,  he  removed  to  San  Francisco.  Here  he  became 
connected  with  a  wholesale  clothing  house,  and  was  assistant  bookkeeper, 
cashier  and  traveling  sales  agent  over  Oregon  and  Idaho.  That  was  before 
Idaho  had  any  railroads,  and  the  customary  method  of  travel  was  by  sleigh  or 
stage.  Frequently  two  days  and  nights  were  spent  between  towns  of  any  size. 
Mr.  Frank  was  first  in  business  for  himself  as  a  general  merchant  at  Alameda. 

On  coming  to  Los  Angeles,  in  1887,  he  joined  Mr.  L.  Harris,  a  veteran 
merchant  of  the  coast,  and  in  1888  they  formed  the  company  of  Harris  &  Frank, 
now  a  corporation.  Their  first  store  was  at  Temple  and  Spring  streets.  This 
firm  erected  the  first  building  ever  leased  in  Los  Angeles,  known  as  the  Allen 
Block.  Harris  &  Frank  now  own  and  occupy  the  building  at  437  South  Spring 
Street.  Continuously  since  1887  Mr.  Frank  has  been  a  Los  Angeles  merchant. 
He  is  also  a  director  of  the  Merchants  National  Bank,  secretary  of  the  Riverside 
Vineyard  Company,  owning  eighteen  hundred  acres  of  land  in  Riverside 
County,  and  is  president  of  the  L.  Harris  Realty  Company,  Incorporated. 

Mr.  Frank's  friends  say  that  he  has  given  more  time  to  public  affairs  than 
any  other  man  in  the  city.  In  1895  he  was  the  second  elected  president  of  the 
Merchants  Association,  and  for  many  years  has  been  identified  with  the  Mer- 
chants and  Manufacturers  Association.  He  was  chairman  of  the  committee 
of  this  organization  which  raised  a  large  fund  and  put  unemployed  men  to 
work  during  the  hard  times  succeeding  the  Spanish- American  war.  He  was 
also  chairman  of  a  committee  to  raise  funds  for  the  Times  sufferers  after  the 
explosion  of  the  Times  Building.  With  Judge  Charles  H.  Sibert,  he  succeeded 
in  raising  thirty-five  thousand  dollars  for  this  purpose.  He  is  credited  with 
having  raised  more  money  for  direct  burdens  of  charity  than  any  other  one 
man  in  Los  Angeles.  Mr.  Frank  for  fifteen  years  was  president  of  the  Asso- 
ciated Charities,  and  was  father  of  the  Tag  Day  idea  on  the  Pacific  Coast.  Five 

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successive  Tag  Day  yearly  campaigns  were  held  with  great  success  under  his 
initiative  and  the  plan  was  adopted  by  many  other  cities  on  the  coast.  Mr. 
Frank  was  a  member  of  the  School  Board  of  Los  Angeles  from  1895  to  1914, 
and  president  of  the  board  two  different  times.  He  is  a  director  of  the  Los 
Angeles  Chamber  of  Commerce  and  director  for  the  Red  Cross  Chapter  of 
Los  Angeles,  and  is  a  former  vice  president  of  the  Municipal  League.  Mr. 
Frank  is  a  Mason,  Shriner,  Maccabee,  Elk  and  Woodman  of  the  World. 

In  1888  he  married  a  daughter  of  Mr.  L.  Harris,  his  business  partner. 
They  have  two  sons,  Lawrence  P.  Frank,  who  served  in  the  United  States  Navy, 
and  is  now  treasurer  of  Harris  &  Frank,  Incorporated,  and  Alvin  H.  Frank, 
of  the  firm  of  Frank  &  Lewis,  stocks  and  bonds.  Mr.  H.  W.  Frank,  while  not  a 
politician,  is  a  firm  believer  in  the  idea  that  business  men  should  take  an  active 
interest  in  civic  affairs  and  help  in  deciding  the  policies  of  our  country. 


miin  I.  lafjobes 


LLIN  L.  RHODES,  known  for  his  many  conspicuous  interests 
in  financial  affairs,  is  a  true  son  of  the  Golden  West,  a  native 
of  Calaveras  County  and  representative  of  a  family  that  has 
been  in  California  seventy  years. 

His  father,  the  late  Alonzo  Rhodes,  was  born  at  Lumberton, 
North  Carolina,  May  25,  1825,  and  the  Rhodes  family  is  still 
a  prominent  one  in  the  Old  North  State.    Alonzo,  however, 


spent  his  early  manhood  in  Tennessee  and  Mississippi  until  in 
1849  he  joined  the  argonauts  to  California,  making  the  trip  overland.  He 
farmed  in  San  Joaquin  County  until  1856,  mined  in  Calaveras  County  until 
1872,  and  from  that  year  until  he  retired  in  1891  was  occupied  with  real  estate 
and  conveyancing  in  Stockton,  where  he  is  best  remembered  in  a  business  way. 
In  1886  he  and  associates  took  over  the  street  railway  system  of  Stockton,  and 
during  his  connection  therewith  it  was  greatly  improved  and  extended,  with 
service  adequate  to  that  growing  and  progressive  city.  Alonzo  Rhodes  moved 
to  Los  Angeles  in  1899,  and  spent  the  last  five  years  of  his  life  here.  He  died 
in  May,  1904.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Society  of  California  Pioneers.  At 
Stockton  March  15,  1855,  he  married  Miss  Anna  MacVicar,  a  native  of  Missis- 
sippi, and  of  their  six  children  three  are  living,  Alonzo  Willard  of  Los  Angeles, 
and  Mary  A.  who  lives  with  her  brother  Allin. 

During  his  boyhood  and  youth  in  Stockton,  Allin  L.  Rhodes  attended  the 
public  schools,  but  took  his  professional  education  in  the  University  of  Michigan, 
where  he  was  graduated  in  the  law  course  with  the  degree  LL.  B.  After  his 
admission  to  the  bar  he  practiced  at  Stockton  until  a  break  down  in  health  in 
1897  compelled  him  to  abandon  his  profession  there.  After  two  years  of  re- 
cuperation among  the  Sierras  with  refreshed  energies  he  resumed  his  career  at 
Los  Angeles  in  the  fall  of  1899,  and  the  following  spring  entered  the  legal 
department  of  the  Title  Abstract  &  Trust  Company  and  about  six  months  later 
took  the  general  management  of  its  affairs. 

In  August,  1913,  those  in  touch  with  Los  Angeles  business  will  recall  the 
consolidation  of  this  company  with  the  Los  Angeles  Title  Insurance  Company, 
under  the  latter  name,  with  Mr.  Rhodes  as  general  manager  and  director,  the 
offices  he  holds  today.  In  January,  1914,  the  company  also  absorbed  the  Los 
Angeles  Title  &  Trust  Company,  giving  it  unrivaled  facilities.  The  business 
of  the  company  has  assumed  such  proportions  that  it  has  recently,  as  shown  by 
the  reports  issued  by  the  Insurance  Departments  of  the  various  States,  been 
handling  a  greater  volume  of  title  business  than  any  other  company  in  America 
engaged  in  the  title  insurance  business  exclusively. 

Mr.  Rhodes  is  also  president  of  the  Brearley  Investment  Company  and  a 
director  of  the  Azuza  Orange  Company.  He  is  a  York  Rite  Mason  and  Shriner, 
a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club,  and  a  democrat. 


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DWARD  DOUBLE,  who,  up  to  the  time  of  his  death  was  presi- 
dent of  the  Union  Tool  Company — one  of  the  greatest  indus- 
trial organizations  of  Southern  California — was  a  man  of  long 
and  wide  experience  in  the  oil  industry,  and  a  specialist  in 
the  mechanical  and  technical  side  of  that  work.  He  came  to 
California  in  the  infancy  of  petroleum  workings  on  the  coast 
and  his  own  inventive  genius  and  enterprise  secured  to  him 
immediate  recognition  and  rapid  advancement,  and  contributed 
more  than  any  other  one  factor  to  the  quick  yet  substantial  growth  of  the  great 
organization  of  which  he  was  the  head,  which  makes  and  deals  in  all  kinds  of 
oil  well  equipment  and  supplies,  internal  combustion  engines,  mining  machinery 
and  steel  and  iron  castings. 

Mr.  Double  was  born  at  Titusville,  Pennsylvania — one  of  the  pioneer 
American  centers  of  the  oil  industry — on  October  15,  1874,  a  son  of  Hamilton 
and  Mary  (Smith)  Double.  He  grew  to  manhood  in  Pennsylvania,  attended 
public  school,  and  his  early  disposition  and  inclination  toward  mechanical  work 
naturally  threw  him  into  the  throbbing  industries  of  Western  Pennsylvania, 
where  he  came  to  know  all  phases  of  the  oil  business.  He  was  especially  in- 
terested in  the  manufacture  of  tools  and  appliances  for  the  production  of  oil. 
In  the  course  of  time,  and  while  he  was  yet  a  young  man,  he  came  to  be  recog- 
nized as  one  of  the  most  skilled  tool  and  machinery  men  in  the  oil  fields  of 
Pennsylvania. 

About  the  time  California  came  into  prominence  as  a  petroleum  producing 
state,  Mr.  Double  sought  the  far  western  field,  in  July,  1897,  first  locating  in 
Santa  Paula,  Ventura  County.  He  became  intimately  acquainted  with  the 
leading  oil  producers  of  that  vicinity,  and  was  soon  interested  in  several  enter- 
prises. He  established  a  plant  for  the  manufacture  of  oil  tools  and  machinery, 
which,  in  1901,  was  removed  to  Los  Angeles  and  the  business  and  plant  enlarged, 
making  it  the  leading  establishment  of  its  kind  on  the  Coast. 

His  great  success  was  largely  a  matter  of  foresight,  re-enforced  by  his  own 
ability  to  manufacture  and  supply  the  rapidly  increasing  needs  of  the  California 
oil  district. 

He  was  among  the  very  first  in  the  Southwest  to  adopt  the  use  of  tungsten 
or  high  speed  steel,  because,  though  the  initial  outlay  for  it  was  probably  six 
times  as  great  as  carbon  steel  would  have  been,  it  gave  him  speed  and  efficiency 
and  met  the  demands  of  his  progressive  methods. 

At  Los  Angeles  he  built  up  an  industry  larger  than  any  other  in  the 
manufacture  of  oil  well  tools  and  supplies  for  the  Southwest.  He  also  became 
associated  with  the  Union  Tool  Company  of  Los  Angeles,  which  was  established 
in  May,  1908,  by  the  consolidation  of  the  American  Engineering  and  Foundry 
Company  and  the  Union  Oil  Tool  Company,  each  of  which  had  been  in  existence 
for  a  period  of  years.  Their  combined  production  constituted  the  bulk  of  the 
important  manufacturing  done  in  the  interest  of  the  oil  industry  of  the  Coast. 
The  new  company,  which  was  named  Union  Tool  Company,  was  capitalized  at 
one  million  two  hundred  thousand  dollars,  and  under  the  handling  of  Mr.  Double 
as  president  and  general  manager  its  growth  and  prosperity  exceeded  all  pre- 

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dictions.  The  company  soon  outgrew  its  facilities  and  its  ground  space  in  Los 
Angeles,  and  several  years  ago  removed  to  the  model  industrial  suburb  of  Los 
Angeles,  Torrance,  where,  on  twenty-five  acres  of  ground,  the  company  erected 
one  of  the  largest  and  most  complete  manufacturing  plants  in  the  country. 
The  buildings  are  all  of  concrete  and  steel  construction,  and  have  many  times 
been  called  models  of  modern  factory  arrangement,  appliances  and  sanitary 
equipment.  Mr.  Double  himself  furnished  many  of  the  basic  ideas  and  designs 
for  these  buildings,  and  personally  witnessed  and  directed  every  phase  of  their 
construction  and  equipment.  The  capital  of  the  company  was  later  increased 
to  $2,500,000,  and  more  recently  was  still  further  increased  to  $7,500,000.  The 
plant  alone  represents  an  investment  of  one  and  one-half  millions  of  dollars. 
The  company  maintains  branches  in  all  the  oil  fields  of  California,  and  it  also 
does  very  substantial  business  in  the  East,  having  one  large  plant  near  Chicago 
and  another  at  Carnegie,  near  Pittsburgh,  and  exporting  large  quantities  of  its 
products  to  European  and  Oriental  countries. 

Mr.  Double  was  a  most  successful  organizer  and  had  the  rare  genius  of 
surrounding  himself  with  a  corps  of  able  assistants,  whose  talents  he  co-ordi- 
nated into  a  vital  working  unit. 

As  a  prominent  business  man  Mr.  Double  met  faithfully  and  grandly  the 
numerous  calls  made  upon  his  service  and  time  for  the  good  of  Los  Angeles  as 
a  community.  He  was  a  member  of  the  representative  business  and  civic 
organizations,  the  Los  Angeles  Chamber  of  Commerce,  Union  League  Club, 
Jonathan  Club,  San  Gabriel  Valley  Country  Club,  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club 
and  the  Order  of  Elks. 

On  January  4,  1899,  at  Santa  Paula,  California,  Mr.  Double  married  Miss 
Alice  Harbard,  who  survives  him.  This  union  was  blessed  with  one  daughter, 
Helen  Double,  who  is  a  student  at  the  University  of  Wisconsin. 

At  the  very  height  of  his  advancing  career,  while  constructing  and  com- 
pleting another  great  plant  at  Carnegie,  near  Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania,  for 
manufacturing  oil  well  tools  and  equipment  for  the  export  trade,  he  was  sud- 
denly claimed  by  death  on  May  27,  1920. 


Maria  Elisaldc  De  Sepulveda 


Don  Jose  Diego  Sepulveda 


CHE  Sepulvedas  are  a  fine  old  family  whose  names  figure  promi- 
/  nently  in  the  romantio  history  of  the  ancient  regime  of 
\  Southern  California  and  in  later  generations  the  name  has 
*  been  one  of  distinction  in  connection  with  the  social  and  ma- 
y  terial  development  and  progress  of  this  section  of  the  state. 
\  Jose  Diego  Sepulveda  was  a  son  of  Dolores  Sepulveda, 

/  who  came  from  his  native  Castillian  province  in  Spain  to 
California  in  the  employ  of  his  government,  bringing  with 
him  his  wife,  Maria  Yquacia  Avila,  also  a  native  of  Spain.  The  families  of 
both  Sepulveda  and  Avila  had  provinces  in  Spain  bearing  their  name.  In 
return  for  his  services  Dolores  Sepulveda  was  given  the  Rancho  Palos  Verdes, 
which  extended  from  San  Pedro  to  Redondo. 

On  this  great  estate  Jose  Diego  Sepulveda  was  born  in  1813.  He  later 
became  an  heir  to  the  Palos  Verdes  grant  of  thirty-nine  thousand  acres,  also 
owner  of  the  Yncaipa  Rancho  in  San  Bernardino  County  and  part  owner  of  the 
Rancho  San  Bernardino  present  site  of  the  city  of  San  Bernardino,  which  he 
and  other  owners  sold  to  the  Mormons  in  1852. 

He  was  a  somewhat  conspicuous  figure  in  connection  with  the  historic  Los 
Angeles  revolt  of  1846-47.  He  and  Serbelo  Verela  and  Ramon  Carrillo  had 
been  dispatched  from  the  Paderon  Blanco  with  a  command  of  fifty  or  more 
men  to  oppose  Wilson  and  his  retainers.  Jose  Carmen  Lugo  was  already  in 
command  of  a  force  of  about  twenty  men  on  the  San  Bernardino  frontier  with 
instructions  to  watch  the  foreigners  and  he  marched  with  his  men  to  Chino. 
Lugo  claimed  to  have  been  the  first  to  arrive  at  that  point  and  to  have  been 
joined  late  at  night  by  Varela.  The  Americans  were  summoned  to  surrender 
and  it  is  possible  that  a  few  shots  were  exchanged  between  the  contending  forces 
at  this  time.  Varela  promised  protection  to  the  Americans  as  prisoners  of  war, 
and  the  terms  were  accepted  and  "Wilson  and  his  men  after  surrendering  were 
soon  on  their  way  with  their  captors  to  Los  Angeles.  Sepulveda  and  his  men 
were  in  the  advance  and  in  charge  of  most  of  the  prisoners,  who  were  in  due 
time  turned  over  to  Flores,  eight  or  ten  of  the  more  prominent  of  the  number 
being  held  in  captivity  until  January,  1847. 

During  the  remainder  of  October,  1846,  a  large  part  of  the  California 
army — at  least  about  a  hundred  men,  were  kept  in  service  between  Los  Angeles 
and  San  Pedro,  the  chief  encampment  having  been  at  Temple's  Rancho  of  Los 
Carritos,  and  a  small  detachment  being  established  at  the  Palos  Verdes  Rancho 
of  Sepulveda,  near  the  anchorage  at  San  Pedro. 

Jose  Diego  Sepulveda  choosing  the  stock  industry  as  his  occupation  made 
the  Palos  Verdes  Rancho  his  headquarters.  He  bought  and  sold  large  numbers 
of  cattle,  horses  and  sheep  and  over  the  hills  for  miles  in  every  direction  roamed 
his  herds  and  flocks.  Sepulveda  handled  his  vast  possessions  with  keen  judg- 
ment and  great  energy,  proving  himself  the  inheritor  of  his  father's  talent.  At 
the  time  of  his  death  Sepulveda  was  fifty-nine  years  of  age.  His  widow  was 
Maria  Francisca  Elisalde,  member  of  a  prominent  San  Diego  family,  whose 

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father  was  the  first  major  domo,  overseer,  of  all  Mission  lands,  a  government 
appointment. 

At  Senora  Sepulveda's  death  she  was  survived  by  three  of  their  eleven 
children,  Aurelio  W.,  now  deceased,  and  Raman  D.  and  Rudecinda  Florencia 
(Mrs.  James  H.  Dodson,  Sr.),  both  residents  of  San  Pedro. 


f  ojjn  Jogepf)  Jf  ap,  Jr. 


HILE  John  Joseph  Fay,  Jr.,  came  to  Southern  California  after 
a  successful  business  career  in  the  East,  he  was  never  satisfied 
to  be  a  retired  business  man,  and  as  a  matter  of  fact  was  one 
of  the  prominent  bankers,  oil  men  and  public  spirited  citizens 
of  Los  Angeles  for  many  years. 

The  outstanding  feature  of  his  record  as  a  public  man 
was  the  great  service  he  performed  as  president  of  the  Aque- 
duct Commission,  an  office  to  which  he  was  appointed  by 
Mayor  Meredith  P.  Snyder  of  Los  Angeles.  One  of  the  greatest  pieces  of  engi- 
neering in  the  world,  the  aqueduct  has  brought  untold  benefit  to  Los  Angeles, 
and  the  gratitude  of  this  and  subsequent  generations  is  paid  the  men  who  were 
most  influential  in  carrying  out  the  project.  The  commission  presided  over  by 
Mr.  Fay  had  the  disbursement  of  twenty-three  million  dollars  for  the  building 
of  the  aqueduct,  and  in  that  office,  as  in  everything  else  he  undertook,  he  dis- 
charged his  duties  with  complete  honor  and  integrity. 

Mr.  Fay  was  born  at  Detroit,  Michigan,  in  1853.  His  father,  John  Joseph 
Fay,  Sr.,  was  a  native  of  Dublin,  Ireland,  and  located  at  Detroit  when  a  young 
man.  Then  and  in  later  years  he  was  a  wholesale  grocery  merchant.  In  1854  he 
moved  to  Grand  Rapids  and  in  1869  to  Indianapolis,  but  after  the  death  of  his 
wife  he  returned  to  Deti'oit  and  lived  with  his  son  until  his  death  on  Decem- 
ber 30,  1898.  He  married  Catherine  Wheeler,  daughter  of  John  Wheeler,  of 
Philadelphia.  They  were  the  parents  of  four  sons  and  one  daughter:  John  J., 
Louis,  Angelo,  Frank  and  Catherine  Fay. 

John  Joseph  Fay,  Jr.,  acquired  a  public  school  education  and  at  an  early 
age  became  a  bookkeeper  with  the  lumber  firm  of  T.  D.  Stimson  &  Company. 
He  became  actively  associated  with  Mr.  T.  D.  Stimson  at  Big  Rapids,  Michigan, 
in  the  early  seventies,  and  for  nearly  twenty  years  was  prominent  in  lumber 
circles  in  Michigan  and  the  Middle  West. 

Mr.  Fay  came  to  California  in  the  early  nineties.  Here  he  employed  his  re- 
sources to  engage  in  the  banking  business  and  served  for  seven  years  as  presi- 
dent of  the  Citizens  National  Bank  of  Los  Angeles,  and  at  the  time  of  his  death 
was  director  of  that  institution,  also  of  the  Citizens  Trust  &  Savings  Bank. 
After  seven  years  he  resigned  as  president  of  the  bank  to  engage  in  the  oil  busi- 
ness, having  acquired  extensive  holdings  in  the  Fullerton  Oil  Company  and  be- 
came president  of  that  corporation. 

Mr.  Fay  died  March  11,  1918,  at  the  age  of  sixty-four.  In  politics  he  was 
a  stanch  democrat,  was  a  member  of  the  Catholic  Newman  Club,  and  was  an 
ardent  sportsman,  having  membership  in  the  California  Club,  was  a  charter 
member  of  the  Bolsa  Chica  Gun  Club  and  the  Tuna  Club  of  Catalina. 

In  1875  he  married  Miss  Jane  Stimson,  a  daughter  of  his  business  partner, 
T.  D.  Stimson.  Mrs.  Fay  died  while  making  a  tour  of  the  world  at  Rome, 
Italy,  in  1906.  She  was  the  mother  of  two  sons  and  one  daughter,  Louis,  Clar- 
ence and  Anna  Fay.  At  Los  Angeles,  July  29,  1908,  Mr.  Fay  married  Agatha 
J.  Sabichi.  Mrs.  Fay,  who  survives  her  honored  husband  and  resides  at  2432 
Figueroa  street,  is  a  native  of  Los  Angeles  and  represents  two  of  the  oldest  and 

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JOHN  JOSEPH  FAY,  JR. 


most  prominent  families  of  Southern  California.  Her  father  was  one  of  the 
most  prominent  lawyers  of  his  day,  and  her  mother  was  a  daughter  of  William 
Wolfskill,  one  of  the  first  American  settlers  in  Southern  California.  More  ex- 
tended reference  to  both  the  Sabichi  and  Wolfskill  families  is  made  on  other 
pages  of  this  publication.  Mrs.  Fay  is  the  mother  of  two  children,  John  Francis 
and  Edward  Richard  Fay. 


Jfrebericfe  Vernon©  or&on 


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NE  of  the  large  oil  land  owners  of  California,  being  interested 
in  much  of  the  choicest  property  in  the  oil  fields  of  the  state, 
Frederick  Vernon  Gordon,  of  Los  Angeles,  has  led  a  career 
characterized  by  the  attainment  and  maintenance  of  high 
position  through  individual  effort.  He  began  to  be  self-sup- 
porting when  still  a  lad,  and  with  no  advantages  save  those 
of  natural  ability  and  a  determination  to  succeed,  worked  his 
way  step  by  step  upward,  grasping  some  opportunities  and 
making  others  to  suit  his  own  needs,  his  entire  business  life  having  constituted  a 
record  of  singular,  eminent  and  well-merited  achievement. 

Mr.  Gordon  was  born  at  Montgomery  City,  Missouri,  May  23,  1875,  a  son 
of  B.  F.  and  Margaret  A.  Gordon,  and  was  eight  years  of  age  when  taken  by  his 
parents  to  Los  Angeles,  his  educational  training  being  completed  in  this  city's 
public  schools.  He  was  a  little  more  than  sixteen  years  of  age  when,  in  July, 
1891,  he  entered  the  employ  of  the  Southern  Pacific  Railroad,  as  assistant  opera- 
tor and  ticket  agent  at  River  Station,  Los  Angeles,  and  in  1892  was  advanced  to 
the  post  of  clerk  of  the  freight  depot  at  that  station.  The  outbreak  of  the 
Spanish- American  war  interrupted  his  career  for  a  time,  for  in  June,  1898,  he 
enlisted  with  the  First  Company,  Volunteer  Signal  Corps,  at  Los  Angeles,  and 
July  1,  1898,  was  advanced  to  the  rank  of  corporal,  this  being  followed  by  pro- 
motion to  sergeant  in  December  of  the  same  year.  He  was  detailed  on  several 
military  expeditions  into  the  interior  of  the  Philippine  Islands  against  the 
natives  and  took  part  in  a  number  of  engagements,  among  them  being :  Manila, 
August  13,  1898;  Laloma  Church,  February  5-6,  1899;  Caloocan,  February  10; 
Tuluhan,  March  25 ;  Palo,  March  26,  and  Meyecanaghan  on  the  same  date ; 
Marloa,  March  27 ;  Bocave  and  Guiguinto,  March  29 ;  Mololos,  March  31 ;  Calum- 
pit,  April  25 ;  Santa  Tomas,  May  4,  and  San  Fernando,  May  5,  1899.  Mr.  Gor- 
don was  on  duty  under  General  MacArthur  during  his  Philippine  campaign. 
After  the  close  of  the  war  with  the  natives  he  was  mustered  out  in  July,  1899. 
He  took  an  active  part  in  military  affairs  for  a  brief  time  following  and  then  re- 
turned to  the  pursuits  of  civil  life. 

Upon  his  return  to  California,  Mr.  Gordon  spent  a  short  period  at  Los 
Angeles,  but  in  November,  1899,  removed  to  Bakersfield,  where  he  became  night 
operator  for  the  Santa  Fe  Railroad,  being  subsequently  advanced  to  cashier 
and  then  to  assistant  agent.  He  continued  in  the  service  of  that  road  until  1902, 
in  which  year  he  returned  to  Los  Angeles  and  embarked  in  his  operations  in  the 
oil  business.  His  first  work  in  that  line  was  in  charge  of  a  large  organization 
operating  in  the  west  side  oil  fields  of  Bakersfield  until  1907,  when  he  resigned 
to  enter  the  oil  business  on  his  own  account.  Mr.  Gordon's  connections  with 
operating  companies  are  numerous  and  important,  and  he  is  secretary  and  a  di- 
rector of  many  oil  companies.  He  is  one  of  the  best  informed  men  regarding 
oil  investments  in  Los  Angeles,  and  his  business  associates  rate  him  high  in 
ability,  while  his  personal  integrity  has  never  been  questioned.  He  is  well  known 
in  club  circles  of  Los  Angeles,  belonging  to  the  California  Club,  and  to  the  Los 
Angeles  Athletic,  Midwick  Country,  Los  Angeles  Country,  California  Coun- 
try, the  Gamut  clubs  and  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association. 

On  February  20,  1902,  Mr.  Gordon  was  united  in  marriage  at  Bakersfield, 
California,  with  Miss  Mary  Smith  Langdon,  of  that  city,  and  to  this  union  there 
were  born  two  children:  Ruth  Langdon,  who  resides  with  her  parents  and  is 
attending  school;  and  Margaret  E.,  deceased. 

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Claube  Srbing^arber 


LAUDE  IRVING  PARKER  studied  law  and  was  admitted  to 
the  bar  while  he  was  deputy  county  auditor  of  Los  Angeles 
county.  Then  followed  a  service  of  four  years  as  United 
States  collector  of  internal  revenue.  When  he  left  that  office 
and  took  up  practice  he  turned  his  experience  to  good  account 
and  has  been  specializing  in  cases  involving  Federal  tax  laws. 
Today  Mr.  Parker  is  head  of  an  organization  which  he  has 
personally  built  up  and  represents  the  ablest  experts  found 
in  the  United  States  as  specialists  on  the  complicated  subject  of  Federal  taxa- 
tion. Mr.  Parker  has  offices  in  San  Francisco  and  Salt  Lake,  as  well  as  in  Los 
Angeles,  and  has  a  staff  of  twenty-seven  assistants  in  this  branch  of  the  law. 
He  has  been  at  pains  to  secure  and  surround  himself  with  specialists  in  his  line, 
and  has  perfected  a  service  complete  in  every  detail  and  adequate  for  every 
contingency. 

Mr.  Parker  was  born  on  a  farm  at  Carmi,  Illinois,  January  24,  1871.  He 
is  a  son  of  Theophilus  and  Lora  (Bayley)  Parker.  His  father  entered  the  Union 
Army  at  the  age  of  seventeen,  rose  to  the  rank  of  captain  of  the  Thirteenth  Illi- 
nois Infantry,  and  was  of  a  military  family,  two  of  his  brothers  giving  up  their 
lives  in  the  cause  of  the  Union.  Captain  Parker  after  the  war  was  a  farmer 
and  cattle  raiser  and  dealer  in  Illinois,  and  died  at  Carmi  in  March  1894.  His 
wife  after  his  death  came  to  Los  Angeles  and  died  in  June  1919,  at  the  age  of 
seventy-three. 

Claude  I.  Parker  is  the  second  of  fourteen  children,  six  of  whom  are  still 
living.  He  lived  on  a  farm  in  Southern  Illinois,  to  the  age  of  sixteen,  attending 
the  common  and  high  schools  at  Carmi.  The  rest  of  his  education  he  has  de- 
rived from  private  study  and  experience  in  the  intervals  of  self-supporting  em- 
ployment. On  leaving  his  father's  farm  he  went  to  Topeka,  Kansas,  and  for  two 
years  was  employed  as  ticket  boy  by  the  Santa  Fe  Railway  Company.  He  then 
returned  home,  and  for  two  years  traveled  on  the  road  as  salesman  for  the 
Acme  Portrait  Company  in  Chicago.  Mr.  Parker  came  to  California  in  June, 
1892,  and  for  eight  years  was  a  salesman  for  the  Singer  Manufacturing  Com- 
pany at  Los  Angeles.  He  left  that  company  to  accept  the  position  of  deputy 
county  tax  collector  of  Los  Angeles  county,  serving  from  1902  to  1906 ;  from 
1906  to  1909  he  was  deputy  county  auditor,  and  having  in  the  meantime  dili- 
gently pursued  the  study  of  law,  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  the  latter  year. 
Mr.  Parker  was  appointed  United  States  collector  of  internal  revenue  for  the 
newly  created  district  of  Southern  California  by  President  Theodore  Roosevelt, 
and  entered  upon  his  duties  in  that  office  on  July  1,  1909.  As  collector  for 
the  Sixth  District  of  California,  he  remained  in  office  until  September,  1913, 
and  then  began  his  law  practice,  specializing  in  Federal  tax  law. 

Mr.  Parker  is  a  republican  in  national  affairs.  He  is  a  thirty-second 
degree  Scottish  Rite  Mason  and  Shriner,  an  Elk  and  Maccabee,  and  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club  and  the  Automobile  Club  of  Southern 
California. 


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&tlltam  (Seorge  Hercfefjoff 


T  different  points  in  the  narrative  and  personal  history  of 
Southern  California  the  name  William  G.  Kerckhoff  appears 
prominently  in  connection  with  the  great  industrial,  particu- 
larly the  power  development  in  California.  His  associates 
are  prominent  men  in  the  life  of  Southern  California,  and 
Mr.  Kerckhoff  is  of  equal  eminence.  His  services  could  not 
be  described  in  full  except  through  a  complete  history  of  half 
a  dozen  or  more  great  public  utilities,  banking  and  com- 
mercial enterprises  that  in  themselves  are  of  the  greatest  significance  in  South- 
ern California. 

Mr.  Kerckhoff  was  born  at  Terre  Haute,  Indiana,  March  30,  1856,  a  son 
of  George  and  Philippine  (Newhart)  Kerckhoff.  Besides  the  public  schools  of  his 
native  city,  he  attended  a  gymnasium  in  Hanover,  Germany,  and  on  return- 
ing from  abroad  went  into  business  with  his  father,  who  conducted  a  whole- 
sale jobbing  saddlery  and  hardware  business  at  Terre  Haute.  In  the  fall  of 
1878  he  came  to  California,  and  after  a  year  of  travel  and  investigation  located 
at  Los  Angeles,  which  then  contained  only  10,000  people.  In  1879,  with  two 
associates,  he  organized  the  firm  of  Jackson,  Kerckhoff  &  Cuzner,  which  later 
became  the  Kerckhoff-Cuzner  Mill  and  Lumber  Company.  This  is  one  of  the 
largest  enterprises  of  California,  having  built  up  through  a  period  of  years 
a  chain  of  yards  and  docks  along  the  Southern  coast,  owning  a  fleet  of  lumber 
vessels  and  carrying  an  immense  amount  of  lumber  and  timber  products  from 
the  Northwestern  states  to  Los  Angeles  harbor. 

Mr.  Kerckhoff  had  established  an  enviable  fame  as  a  Western  lumber 
man  before  he  became  interested  in  electric  power  development.  In  1897  he 
was  associated  with  A.  C.  Balch  in  organizing  the  San  Gabriel  Electric  Com- 
pany. The  history  of  this  concern  has  been  referred  to  elsewhere  as  the  pioneer 
in  Southern  California  water  power  development  for  electrical  purposes.  Out 
of  it  has  grown  one  of  the  greatest  light  and  power  systems  in  the  world,  the 
Pacific  Light  and  Power  Corporation,  of  which  Mr.  Kerckhoff  was  president 
until  1913. 

He  is  also  actively  identified  with  the  San  Joaquin  Light  and  Power  Cor- 
poration and  the  Southern  California  Gas  Company  as  president,  and  the 
imposing  scope  of  his  influence  is  broadened  by  other  official  connections  with 
the  Midway  Gas  Company,  Midland  Counties  Public  Service  Corporation,  San 
Pedro,  Los  Angeles  &  Salt  Lake  Railroad,  the  Farmers  and  Merchants  Na- 
tional Bank  and  the  First  National  Bank  of  Kerman,  the  Fresno  Farms  Com- 
pany and  the  South  Coast  Land  Company.  He  is  also  very  largely  interested 
in  realty-improved  property  in  Los  Angeles,  including  the  Kerckhoff  Build- 
ing, among  the  very  large  office  buildings,  and  has  large  holdings  of  acreage 
both  in  Southern  California  and  also  in  the  San  Joaquin  Valley. 

Mr.  Kerckhoff  served  by  appointment  of  the  governor  two  terms  as  a 
commissioner  to  manage  the  Yosemite  National  Park.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Bohemian  and  Pacific  Union  clubs  of  San  Francisco,  Los  Angeles  Country 
and  California  clubs  of  Los  Angeles  and  the  Bolsa  Chica  Gun  Club. 

November  13,  1883,  at  Terre  Haute,  Indiana,  he  married  Louise  Eshman. 
Their  two  daughters  are  Gertrude  and  Marion. 

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FTER  years  of  experience  and  rigid  training,  Adolph  H.  Koebig 
is  deservedly  ranked  among  the  most  prominent  consulting 
engineers  of  Southern  California,  and  his  work  in  connec- 
tion with  numerous  irrigation  projects  is  of  such  an  important 
nature  that  too  much  credit  can  scarcely  be  accorded  him. 
Of  foreign  birth,  Mr.  Koebig  has  been  an  American  citizen 
for  many  years,  and  is  thoroughly  identified  with  the  best 
interests  of  his  adopted  country.  He  was  born  in  Mettlach, 
Prussia,  Germany,  May  17,  1852,  and  was  educated  in  the  Carlsruhe  Gymnasium, 
and  after  his  graduation  in  1869,  went  directly  into  the  military  service  and 
for  six  years  was  an  officer  in  the  army  with  the  rank  of  lieutenant  of  artillery 
and  of  the  engineering  corps.  Being  retired  from  the  service  on  account  of 
invalidism,  he  studied  in  the  University  of  Carlsruhe,  from  which  he  was 
graduated  in  1877.  For  the  subsequent  three  years  he  was  in  the  service  of 
the  department  of  roads,  and  was  engaged  in  canal  and  railroad  construction 
in  Germany  and  Alsace-Lorraine.  Becoming  interested  in  American  affairs 
through  belonging  to  the  first  American  base  ball  team  in  Germany,  Mr. 
Koebig  decided  to  come  to  the  United  States,  and  consequently  applied  for 
a  leave  of  absence  for  a  period  of  six  years,  and  upon  receiving  it  sailed  for 
this  country.  As  he  was  married  on  January  31,  1880,  to  Miss  Helene  Kieffer, 
he  brought  his  bride  with  him,  and  landed  in  New  York  City  during  1880. 
For  the  first  six  months  after  his  arrival,  Mr.  Koebig  was  engaged  in  super- 
intending the  building  of  furnaces  for  some  large  smelting  works,  and  was 
then  called  to  Denver,  Colorado,  and  employed  by  the  Denver  &  Rio  Grande 
Railroad  as  chief  assistant  to  the  chief  engineer  in  the  Southern  division  of 
this  road.  Later  he  became  chief  engineer  of  an  extensive  mining  corporation. 
In  1884  he  returned  to  Germany,  and  after  a  brief  period  came  back  to  the 
United  States,  and  in  December  of  that  same  year  applied  for  citizenship 
papers,  receiving  his  first  ones  in  1885  and  his  final  ones  in  1888.  From  1884 
to  1885  Mr.  Koebig  was  placed  in  charge  of  the  development  work  of  iron 
mines  in  Northern  Michigan,  leaving  that  state  for  California  at  the  close 
of  1885,  and  had  charge  of  a  silver  mine  at  Calico,  that  state. 

In  1886  Mr.  Koebig  was  made  assistant  to  the  chief  engineer  of  the  Santa 
Fe  Railroad  at  San  Bernardino,  California,  and  when  later  he  was  made  city 
engineer  of  that  municipality,  he  opened  an  office  of  his  own  and  specialized 
in  municipal  and  irrigating  and  mining  engineering,  continuing  there  until 
1900  when  he  located  permanently  at  Los  Angeles,  opening  his  present  office, 
and  continuing  alone  until  1910,  when  he  took  his  son,  A.  H.  Koebig,  Jr., 
into  partnership  with  him.  Mr.  Koebig  has  been  connected  with  numerous 
irrigation  projects  and  hydro-electric  corporations  all  over  the  state,  and  was 
consulting  engineer  for  Los  Angeles  and  other  cities.  Oftentimes  he  is  called 
upon  for  expert  testimony  in  important  litigation,  his  authority  and  knowledge 
being  practically  undisputed.  Well  known  in  clubdom,  Mr.  Koebig  belongs 
to  the  California,  Los  Angeles  Country,  and  other  clubs,  and  to  the  Municipal 
League  and  Chamber  of  Commerce.  For  three  years  he  was  president  of  the 
Engineers  and  Architects  of  Southern  California;  was  the  first  president  of 

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ADOLPH  HELIODOR  KOEBIG 


the  Technical  societies  of  Los  Angeles ;  is  a  member  of  the  American  Society 
of  Mechanical  Engineers;  and  was  president  of  the  German  Red  Cross  Relief 
Society  of  Southern  California,  but  resigned  when  the  United  States  entered 
the  World  war.  Politically  he  is  a  stanch  republican.  The  Episcopal  Church 
holds  the  membership  of  his  family.  During  the  war  Mr.  Koebig  was  a  director 
of  the  local  Red  Cross  and  chairman  of  the  local  committee  on  the  War  Sav- 
ings Stamp  campaign. 

Mrs.  Koebig  was  born  in  Luxemburg,  her  father  being  burgomaster  of 
one  of  the  cities  of  that  country.  The  family  is  a  very  old  one  of  Luxemburg, 
and  socially  prominent.  During  the  late  war  Mrs.  Koebig  took  a  very  active 
part  in  the  Red  Cross  and  Liberty  Loan  work.  She  is  a  director  in  a  number 
of  charitable  institutions  of  Los  Angeles,  belongs  to  the  Ebell  and  other  clubs. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Koebig  have  three  children,  namely:  Dr.  W.  C,  Adolph 
H.,  Jr.,  and  Kurt  J.  Dr.  W.  C.  Koebig  was  graduated  in  medicine,  at  Los 
Angeles,  with  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Science  from  the  University  of  South- 
ern California.  After  serving  as  interne  in  several  hospitals  in  this  city,  he 
went  to  Arizona  as  surgeon  of  the  Santa  Fe  Railroad.  Returning  to  Cali- 
fornia, he  passed  the  state  examination,  and  became  resident  surgeon  for  the 
Santa  Fe  Railroad  at  Riverbank,  California,  holding  that  position  for  two 
and  one-half  years.  Doctor  Koebig  then  went  East  for  post  graduate  work, 
but  in  the  meanwhile  his  country  entered  the  World  war,  and  he  returned  to 
California,  sold  his  practice,  and  enlisted  in  the  army.  About  a  year  ago  he 
was  sent  to  Bordeaux,  France,  to  take  charge  of  the  orthopedic  section  of 
base  hospital  No.  88.  he  having  specialized  in  orthopedic  surgery.  During 
his  period  of  service  he  received  his  promotion  to  the  rank  of  captain,  and 
has  now  been  returned  to  the  United  States.    Doctor  Koebig  is  married. 

The  second  son,  Adolph  H.  Koebig,  Jr.,  and  his  father's  namesake,  is  a 
graduate  of  Harvard  Military  School,  the  University  of  Southern  California, 
the  Leland-Stanford  University,  from  whence  he  went  to  the  Amherst  College 
at  Amherst,  Massachusetts,  he  returned  to  Los  Angeles,  and  was  employed  as 
assistant,  location  and  construction  engineer  by  various  water  and  power  com- 
panies in  irrigation  districts,  and  in  the  building  department  of  the  City  of 
Los  Angeles,  and  the  good  roads  department  of  the  County  of  Los  Angelas. 
Having  acquired  a  very  valuable  experience,  and  by  that  time  measuring  up 
to  his  father's  exacting  standards,  the  young  man  was  taken  by  his  father 
into  partnership.  He  married  Gladys  Felt  of  Los  Angeles,  and  they  have  one 
child,  Helene  Mary  Koebig,  who  is  six  years  old.  The  Lyons  Club  holds  the 
membership  of  A.  H.  Koebig,  Jr. 

Kurt  J.  Koebig  also  attended  the  Harvard  Military  School,  and  for  two 
years  was  a  student  in  the  University  of  Southern  California,  and  for  several 
terms  was  at  Leland  Stanford  University,  but  did  not  graduate,  as  he  pre- 
ferred to  enter  business  life.  He  learned  the  fundamentals  of  a  commercial 
career  in  the  National  Bank  of  California  at  Los  Angeles,  and  then  was  made 
purchasing  agent  for  the  Silver  Lake  Power  &  Irrigation  Company,  leaving 
it  for  the  Security  National  Bank  of  Los  Angeles.  He  then  was  connected 
with  the  Bank  of  Italy,  then  with  the  Arnold  Automobile  Distributing  Com- 
pany. Kurt  J.  Koebig  was  married  to  Edna  Hauerwaass,  and  they  have  one 
son,'  Frederick,  who  is  two  years  old,  and  they  reside  at  Los  Angeles. 


jfranfe  Winq,  ©aplor 


RANK  WING  TAYLOR  was  a  resident  of  Los  Angeles  for 
twenty-three  years  and  he  and  his  family  have  long  been 
prominent  socially,  in  business  and  professional  affairs  of 
Southern  California. 

Mr.  Taylor,  who  died  in  1918,  a  short  time  before  the 
close  of  the  World  war,  was  born  at  Troy,  New  York,  April 
28,  1856,  a  son  of  Tracy  and  Ella  (Wing)  Taylor.  The  Taylor 
home  was  at  122  First  Street,  in  Troy,  and  next  door  lived 
Russell  Sage  and  wife.  Mrs.  Sage  often  took  care  of  Frank  Wing  Taylor  as  a 
baby  and  loved  him  as  a  child. 

His  mother  was  a  daughter  of  Abraham  Wing,  a  pioneer  lumberman  of 
New  York.  The  Wing  mill  site  for  several  years  was  known  as  Wing's  Falls, 
and  later  the  name  was  changed  to  Glens  Falls,  now  an  important  city  of 
New  York  State.  Abraham  Wing  was  known  for  his  extensive  charities  and 
his  kind  and  lovable  nature. 

Tracy  Taylor  was  a  descendant  of  the  Tracy  family.  Baron  John  D. 
Sudley,  Lord  of  Sudley  and  Toddington,  in  the  year  1140,  married  Grace, 
daughter  and  heir  of  Henry  De  Traci,  feudal  Lord  of  Barnstable.  The  Traci 
family  boasted  of  descent  from  the  Saxon  kings  of  England. 

April  24,  1783,  Mary  Tracy  was  married  to  Nathan  Taylor,  and  their 
twin  children  were  Tracy  and  Mary  Taylor.  The  name  Tracy  has  reappeared 
in  every  generation  of  the  Taylor  family  since  then. 

Frank  Wing  Taylor  received  his  early  education  in  Bennington,  and  later 
attended  college  at  Davenport,  Iowa.  While  in  Chicago  he  met  Miss  Minnie 
Cray,  and  they  were  married  June  6,  1883,  at  high  noon,  in  Grace  Episcopal 
Church.  Miss  Cray  was  an  orphan.  Her  father,  Edward  A.  Cray,  had  a 
general  merchandise  store  at  Fort  Edward,  New  York,  and  was  a  prominent 
Mason,  and  died  November  3,  1863.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Taylor  were  distantly  re- 
lated. Mrs.  Taylor's  mother,  Mary  Eliza  Park  was  a  daughter  of  John  C. 
Park  of  Whitehall,  New  York,  and  Mary  Eliza  Wing,  niece  of  Abraham  Wing, 
grandfather,  as  noted  above,  of  Frank  Wing  Taylor. 

Before  his  marriage  Mr.  Taylor  had  traveled  quite  extensively  with  his 
mother  both  in  this  country  and  abroad.  He  had  attended  the  Philadelphia 
Exposition  of  1876,  and  the  Paris  Exposition  of  1878.  His  mother,  Ella  Wing 
Taylor,  and  his  wife's  mother  were  both  graduates  of  the  Emma  Willard 
Seminary  for  Young  Ladies,  at  Troy,  New  York,  a  seminary  that  has  since 
been  liberally  endowed  by  Mrs.  Russell  Sage. 

At  the  time  of  his  marriage  Mr.  Taylor  took  a  position  in  the  First  Na- 
tional Bank  of  Chicago  under  Lyman  Gage.  This  was  the  first  and  only 
position  he  ever  held,  and  he  remained  there  ten  years.  He  left  at  the  death 
of  his  mother,  which  made  it  necessary  for  him  to  take  care  of  his  inheritance, 
which  came  to  him  from  his  maternal  grandfather.  He  never  resumed  busi- 
ness again  beyond  the  responsibilities  required  in  looking  after  his  private 
property. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Taylor  moved  to  Los  Angeles  in  October,  1894.  The  phy- 
sicians had  given  Mrs.  Taylor  six  months  to  live,  but  she  is  alive  and  well 

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today.  They  brought  with  them  their  five  small  children.  Their  first  home 
was  at  2110  Grand  Avenue,  then  the  only  house  in  the  block.  After  a  year, 
they  bought  property  at  the  corner  of  Adams  and  Grand.  Mrs.  Taylor  was 
attracted  to  this  home  by  reason  of  its  trees  and  flowers.  Later  they  made 
a  trip  abroad  with  their  three  older  sons,  and  on  returning  gave  their  serious 
attention  to  the  education  of  the  boys. 

Edward  Cray  Taylor,  the  oldest  son,  graduated  from  the  Los  Angeles 
High  School,  and  four  years  later  entered  the  University  of  California  at 
Berkeley.  He  remained  there  until  the  earthquake,  when  he  continued  his 
studies  at  Columbia  University,  graduating  in  architecture.  He  then  made 
a  second  trip  abroad  to  study  at  first  hand  the  greatest  monuments  of  archi- 
tectural genius  on  the  continent  and  which  he  had  seen  only  superficially  on 
his  first  trip  to  Europe. 

The  second  son,  Ellis  "Wing  Taylor,  also  attended  Columbia  University, 
but  graduated  from  the  University  of  California  in  construction  engineering. 
The  third  son,  F.  William  Howard  Taylor,  was  a  student  at  Berkeley,  but 
graduated  in  medicine  from  the  University  of  Southern  California  and  be- 
came an  X-ray  specialist. 

At  the  entrance  of  the  United  States  into  the  war,  all  of  the  sons  of  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Taylor  enlisted.  The  three  older  boys  took  the  examination  and 
all  were  commissioned  first  lieutenant,  two  in  the  army  and  one  in  the  navy. 
The  oldest  son  went  to  France  with  the  Twenty-fifth  Regiment  of  Engineers, 
and  from  March,  1918.  was  engaged  in  constructing  roads,  railways,  hospitals 
and  bridges  near  the  front  lines,  and  performing  every  other  duty  required 
of  the  engineers.  He  was  instrumental  in  having  the  school  of  Toulouse  opened 
to  the  American  engineers,  artists  and  architects.  He  has  a  diploma  and  medal 
from  Toulouse  for  work  done  there.  The  great  sorrow  of  his  family  in  the 
death  of  his  father  occurred  while  he  was  in  France,  and  the  news  did  not 
reach  him  for  several  months. 

The  second  son  went  to  Annapolis  and  was  allowed  to  choose  where  he 
would  be  stationed.  He  entered  the  submarine  officers'  school  at  New  London, 
Connecticut,  where  he  was  graduated  in  June,  1918,  and  passed  with  such 
high  honors  that  he  was  again  allowed  freedom  of  choice  and  selected  the 
Western  coast  and  was  made  commander  of  submarine  F-3.  He  was  at  San 
Pedro  at  the  time  of  his  father's  death  and  during  a  furlough  proved  the  stay 
and  comfort  of  his  mother  during  the  sorrowful  time. 

The  third  son  became  an  x-ray  instructor  in  the  medical  corps  at  New 
York,  and  was  recommended  for  a  captaincy,  but  on  account  of  his  extreme 
youth  the  commission  was  withheld. 

The  fourth  son,  Fred  Taylor,  who  had  been  injured  in  an  accident,  also 
did  his  bit  by  work  in  the  shipyards  during  the  war. 

The  older  daughter,  Barbara,  a  gifted  harpist,  during  the  war  graduated 
in  a  course  in  first  aid  work  with  the  Red  Cross  and  was  busily  engaged  in 
war  duties,  not  only  with  her  harp,  but  with  her  hand.  She  is  the  wife  of 
Charles  Roger  Kierhulf,  a  junior  member  of  the  firm  C.  R,  Kierhulf  &  Com- 
pany, electricians'  supplies,  and  who  during  the  war  was  in  the  navy,  at  the 
Reserve  Training  Station  at  San  Pedro. 

The  younger  daughter,  Alma,  who  was  born  in  Los  Angeles,  was  married 
to  William  H.  Eaton,  Jr..  son  of  William  H.  Eaton,  after  whose  family  Eaton's 
Canyon  was  named,  and  whose  grandfather  constructed  the  first  water  line 
into'  Pasadena.  William  H.  Eaton,  Jr.,  during  the  closing  months  of  the 
war  was  in  the  Artillery  Officers'  School  at  Camp  Taylor.  Louisville.  Kentucky. 

The  late  Frank  Wing  Taylor  was  one  of  the  promoters  of  the  Chess  Chib 
of  Los  Angeles,  and  as  a  member  of  the  Athletic  Club  was  chairman  of  its 
Chess  Club.  He  was  baptized  and  confirmed  in  the  Episcopal  Church,  and  in 
politics  was  always  a  democrat. 


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ROM  the  age  of  eleven  until  he  was  about  eighteen,  Oswald 
Bartlett  lived  in  the  Castaic  district  of  California.  His  home 
was  a  ranch  in  the  mountains.  While  the  Ridge  Route  now 
makes  that  district  accessible,  at  that  time  it  was  regarded  as 
almost  without  the  pale  of  civilization,  being  in  fact  the 
rendezvous  of  all  the  outlaws  and  gunmen  in  that  section. 
For  the  training  of  a  young  man  for  the  responsibilities  of 
American  business,  hardly  a  less  promising  environment  could 
be  imagined.  However,  it  had  its  compensating  advantages.  It  endowed  Mr. 
Bartlett  with  his  unconquerable  love  of  outdoors,  and  the  solitude,  grandeur 
and  rugged  wildness  of  the  mountains  and  incomparable  hills  of  California. 
There  was  a  country  school  which  he  and  a  brother  and  sister  attended.  They 
made  up  half  of  the  entire  number  of  pupils.  Every  day  they  walked  about 
three  miles  each  way  over  rough,  rugged  mountain  hills  to  the  school. 

This  early  chapter  in  Mr.  Bartlett 's  career  is  pertinent  chiefly  by  way 
of  contrast  to  his  busy  and  fruitful  experience  in  Los  Angeles.  He  has  lived 
in  this  city  twenty  years  and  in  that  time  his  consecutive  industry  and  in- 
satiable passion  for  mercantile  knowlege  brought  him  to  a  position  where  he 
is  recognized  as  one  of  the  foremost  merchants  and  is  president  and  general 
manager  of  California's  finest  store,  Blackstone's. 

Mr.  Bartlett  was  born  at  Birmingham,  England,  February  24,  1882,  son 
of  Cornelius  and  Elizabeth  (Hobbins)  Bartlett.  His  father  was  also  a  native 
of  England,  but  when  a  boy  came  to  America,  spending  about  two  years  in 
Norfolk,  Virginia,  and  two  years  in  Hampton,  Massachusetts.  Later  he  re- 
turned to  England,  married  in  1881,  and  engaged  in  business  as  a  coal  mer- 
chant. Becoming  dissatisfied  with  the  humdrum  ways  of  old  England,  early 
in  1890  he  gave  up  his  business  and,  returning  to  America,  settled  first  at 
Denver,  Colorado,  where  he  became  a  merchant,  and  in  1893  he  moved  to 
California  to  satisfy  his  desire  to  live  the  life  of  an  agriculturist.  His  agri- 
cultural ventures  in  the  Castaic  district  were  a  failure,  owing  to  the  lack  of 
water  and  three  or  four  consecutive  dry  seasons. 

The  successful  business  man  is  one  who  learns  how  to  adapt  himself  to 
circumstances  and  solve  each  day's  problems  as  they  come  up.  Probably  in 
all  his  career  there  was  no  greater  need  for  this  adaptability  than  when  Mr. 
Bartlett  arrived  from  the  ranch  a  green  country  boy  and,  without  knowledge 
of  city  ways,  gained  his  first  knowledge  of  Los  Angeles.  Barker  Brothers 
had  just  moved  into  their  new  building  on  South  Spring  Street.  Young 
Bartlett  was  then  a  member  of  the  Sunday  school  class  in  the  First  Baptist 
Church,  at  Sixth  and  Broadway,  his  teacher  being  Mr.  C.  H.  Barker.  Through 
this  acquaintance  he  secured  the  position  of  elevator  boy  in  the  new  building. 
Barker  Brothers  were  then,  as  now,  the  largest  furniture  store  in  Los  Angeles, 
having  at  that  time  a  pay  roll  of  nearly  forty  people.  Oswald  Bartlett  ran 
the  elevator  several  months,  his  wages  being  increased  to  $7.00  or  $8.00  a 
week.  It  supplied  the  immediate  necessity  of  employment,  but  had  no  future. 
He  next  requested  work  in  the  drapery  workshop,  where  his  salary  was  re- 
duced to  $3.00  a  week  on  account  of  his  lack  of  experience.    "While  there  he 

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acquired  some  knowledge  of  the  different  sorts  of  drapery  fabrics,  and  then 
made  a  new  move  to  get  into  the  selling  end  of  the  business.  His  next  posi- 
tion was  stock  boy  and  second  salesman  in  the  drapery  department  of  the 
Niles  Pease  Furniture  Company,  then  located  in  what  is  now  the  Harris  & 
Frank  Building,  at  443  South  Spring  Street.  In  successive  years  there  were 
other  changes  of  employment,  each  change  being  actuated  by  the  broader  op- 
portunities apparently  presented.  He  was  with  W.  &  J.  Sloane  of  San  Fran- 
cisco as  salesman  in  the  decorative  department ;  the  Eastern  Outfitting  Company 
at  Los  Angeles  as  general  salesman  of  furniture,  carpets  and  draperies;  and 
with  the  J.  M.  Hale  Company  of  Los  Angeles  he  acquired  his  first  experience 
in  buying.  His  first  real  executive  position  was  as  buyer  of  floor  coverings 
and  draperies  at  the  Broadway  Department  Store,  where  he  remained  several 
years.  He  left  that  establishment  to  take  charge  of  Bullock's  Basement  Store. 
This  was  the  first  basement  store  established  in  Los  Angeles  carrying  all  lines 
of  merchandise.  It  was  a  merchandising  idea  then  an  innovation  and  now 
in  the  experimental  stage,  and  its  thorough  success  was  largely  due  to  Mr. 
Bartlett's  genius.  After  about  a  year  with  Bullock's,  he  accepted  another 
opportunity  to  go  with  the  Hamburger  store  as  buyer  for  floor  covering,  furni- 
ture, drapery  and  picture  departments,  a  line  in  which  he  was  specially  inter- 
ested.  With  that  house  he  remained  about  ten  years. 

While  these  successive  changes  are  briefly  told,  during  those  years  of 
service  Mr.  Bartlett  had  achieved  the  knowledge,  the  executive  sense  and  the 
broad  and  detailed  comprehension  which  are  the  chief  qualifications  of  a  suc- 
cessful merchant.  On  this  foundation  his  subsequent  progress  seems  merely 
a  matter  of  course.  February  1,  1917,  he  availed  himself  of  the  opportunity  for 
still  further  advancement,  when  he  became  merchandise  manager  for  the  N. 
B.  Blackstone  Company.  Not  long  afterward  he  succeeded  to  the  position  of 
president  and  general  manager,  and  as  such  he  is  directing  the  service  of  a 
store  known  nationally  and  internationally. 

Notwithstanding  all  his  various  duties  and  responsibilities,  Mr.  Bartlett 
has  been  a  close  observer  of  social  and  political  conditions  affecting  the  wel- 
fare of  his  city  and  nation,  particularly  in  recent  years.  He  is  one  of  the 
stanch  business  men  to  whom  Americanism  is  something  more  than  a  mere 
word.  He  conceives  of  it  as  a  set  of  principles,  involving  not  only  sound 
patriotism,  but  sound  political  economy,  instruction  in  which  should  begin  in 
the  grammar  grades  of  public  schools,  so  that  the  next  generation  at  least 
will  be  properly  trained  and  as  a  direct  result  of  training  and  education  be 
competent  to  solve  the  problems  which  now  cause  social  and  industrial  unrest. 
Mr.  Bartlett  is  a  republican  and  a  firm  believer  that  all  municipal  politics 
should  be  strictly  non-partisan.  He  is  an  active  member  of  the  Commercial 
Federation  of  California,  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club,  The 
Brentwood  Country  Club  and  a  thirty-second  degree  Mason,  being  affiliated 
with  Hollywood  Lodge  No.  355,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  and  Los  Angeles 
Consistory  No.  3,  and  a  Shriner.  He  is  a  member  of  the  First  Baptist  Church 
of  Hollywood. 

December  31,  1904,  at  Los  Angeles,  he  married  Miss  Louise  Eckerman, 
daughter  of  Alexander  and  Rosa  (Bullock)  Eckerman  of  Grand  Rapids,  Mich- 
igan. Alexander  earned  all  the  honors  due  to  a  brave  and  faithful  soldier 
and  veteran  of  our  Civil  war.  He  was  in  fourteen  battles  and  numerous  skirm- 
ishes, including  the  battle  of  the  Wilderness,  Antietam,  Fredericksburg,  Spott- 
sylvania  and  Petersburg,  in  the  last  engagement  his  younger  brother  being 
shot  down  by  his  side.  For  a  period  of  fifty-eight  years  until  the  time  of  his 
death  he  was  engaged  in  the  drug  business  in  Michigan.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bartlett 
have  two  children,  Oswald,  Jr.,  born  in  1909,  and  Elizabeth  Louise,  born  in  1917. 


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^[^O  have  been  at  some  time  an  employe,  subordinate  or  co-worker 
FjS"*  '""'^^GO  °^  Cenl.  M.  H.  Sherman  is  an  experience  that  many  prominent 
r4    '  I  '  Calif ornians  never  neglect  to  mention  with  a  degree  of  pride 

\£  and  satisfaction,  thereby  claiming  credit  not  only  to  them- 

fcn      A      CrT    selves,  but  unconsciously  expressing  a  high  tribute  to  this 
il6r *<f T5^*)W^    pioneer  and  master  railway  builder  of  Southern  California. 
^4  occ j>i> 0^  The  great  work  General  Sherman  and  his  brother-in-law 

and  business  associate,  E.  P.  Clark,  has  done  in  developing 
the  electric  transportation  in  Southern  California  need  here  be  only  briefly 
outlined  as  part  of  the  personal  history  of  General  Sherman. 

He  was  born  at  West  Rupert,  in  Bennington  County,  Vermont,  Decem- 
ber 3,  1853,  of  sturdy  New  England  ancestry.  General  Sherman's  achieve- 
ments apparently  have  been  a  result  of  the  steady  and  sturdy  development 
of  his  own  powers  and  experiences.  He  completed  his  education  in  the  Oswego 
Normal  School,  in  New  York,  and  was  a  district  school  teacher  in  New  York 
State.  At  the  age  of  twenty  he  made  his  first  visit  to  Los  Angeles,  and  soon 
thereafter  went  to  the  sparsely  settled  territory  of  Arizona,  locating  at  Pres- 
cott,  then  only  a  mining  town.  There  he  taught  school  until  1876,  when  the 
territorial  governor  selected  him  at  the  age  of  twenty-three,  as  a  suitable  man 
to  represent  Arizona  at  the  Centennial  Exposition  at  Philadelphia.  After 
discharging  his  duties  at  Philadelphia,  he  started  to  return  to  the  Pacific  Coast. 
The  voyage  was  made  by  the  Isthmus  of  Panama,  the  steamship  being  wrecked 
near  Cuba,  and  altogether  was  a  trying  adventure  for  all  concerned.  At  that 
time  General  Sherman  was  accompanied  by  his  sister,  who  later  became  the 
wife  of  Mr.  E.  P.  Clark.  On  his  return  to  Arizona,  young  Sherman  was  ap- 
pointed by  the  then  governor,  John  C.  Fremont,  superintendent  of  public 
instruction.  In  that  office  he  had  the  first  crucial  test  of  his  abilities  as  an 
organizer.  Arizona  then  had  no  public  school  system  and  young  Sherman 
had  to  solve  the  many  difficult  problems  of  providing  school  facilities  for  the 
scattered  population  of  the  territory.  After  his  appointive  term,  the  office 
became  elective,  and  he  was  chosen  as  his  own  successor,  being  the  only  re- 
publican elected  to  a  territorial  office.  During  that  term,  at  the  request  of 
the  Legislature,  he  rewrote  the  school  laws  of  the  territory,  and  those  laws, 
unanimously  adopted,  remained  the  standard  for  over  thirty  years. 

His  next  public  task  after  leaving  the  office  of  superintendent  of  schools 
came  in  the  shape  of  an  appointment  by  the  governor  to  the  office  of  adjutant- 
general  of  the  territory.  He  was  reappointed  by  the  succeeding  governor,  and 
during  his  two  terms  accomplished  for  the  National  Guard  or  Militia  what  he 
had  done  previously  for  the  public  school  system. 

In  the  meantime  he  had  entered  business,  having  established,  in  1884,  at 
the  age  of  thirty-one,  the  Valley  Bank  of  Phoenix,  Arizona,  and  serving  as 
its  first  president.  Later  this  became  the  largest  bank  of  Arizona.  He  also 
grained  his  first  experience  in  railroad  building  in  Arizona,  building  the  Phoenix 
Railway  in  1884.  He  retained  the  ownership  of  that  line  and  in  1910  ex- 
tended it  to  Glendale,  Arizona,  to  connect  with  the  Santa  Fe  system. 

It  was  during  a  visit  to  Los  Angeles  in  1889  that  the  big  opportunity  of 

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his  lifetime  was  presented  to  General  Sherman.  The  city  at  that  time  had  in 
operation  a  costly  cable  tramway  system,  built  by  a  Chicago  syndicate.  The 
system  was  frequently  paralyzed  as  a  result  of  winter  rains  washing  sand 
into  the  cable  slots,  and  there  was  no  end  of  dissatisfaction  on  the  part  of  the 
public.  While  General  Sherman  had  spent  most  of  his  years  in  the  South- 
west, he  had  kept  in  touch  with  modern  scientific  progress,  and  had  followed 
with  interest  the  first  experiments  in  the  use  of  electricity  as  a  motive  power 
for  driving  street  cars.  Electric  traction,  however,  at  that  time  was  still  in 
an  experimental  stage,  though  in  two  or  three  Eastern  cities  its  possibilities 
had  been  demonstrated.  General  Sherman  determined  that  a  most  promising 
field  for  electric  traction  was  open  in  Los  Angeles.  He  enlisted  the  services 
of  his  brother-in-law,  Mr.  E.  P.  Clark,  in  raising  capital  and  securing  a 
franchise,  and  together  they  built  the  first  tracks  of  the  Los  Angeles  Railway, 
and  soon  afterwards  the  first  electric  street  cars  were  put  in  operation.  Gen- 
eral Sherman  became  president  of  the  system,  with  Mr.  Clark  vice  president 
and  general  manager.  They  absorbed  the  cable  railway  and  from  their  initial 
success  went  on  to  larger  projects,  including  the  organization  of  the  Los  An- 
geles &  Pasadena  Electric  Railway.  All  this  property  was  subsequently  sold 
to  H.  E.  Huntington.  General  Sherman  and  Mr.  Clark  then  turned  their 
enterprise  to  another  field,  organizing  the  Los  Angeles  Pacific  Railway  and 
building  lines  to  Hollywood,  Santa  Monica  and  eventually  covering  all  the 
territory  between  Los  Angeles  and  Santa  Monica  Bay.  This  system  was  sold 
to  E.  H.  Harriman,  and  became  the  nucleus  of  the  present  great  Harriman 
traction  holdings  in  Southern  California.  General  Sherman  is  still  a  director 
in  this  system. 

This  is  a  mere  outline  of  General  Sherman's  activities  in  Southern  Cali- 
fornia. It  would  be  difficult  to  estimate  the  tremendous  influence  he  has 
exercised  over  many  lines  of  development  which  are  now  essential  features  of 
modern  Los  Angeles  and  surrounding  territory.  He  is  also  a  banker,  being 
president  and  director  of  the  First  National  Bank  of  Miland,  vice  president 
and  director  of  the  First  National  Bank  of  Calexico,  vice  president  and  director 
of  the  First  National  Bank  of  Van  Nuys,  vice  president  and  director  of  the 
State  Bank  of  Owensmouth,  director  of  the  Farmers  and  Merchants  National 
Bank  of  Los  Angeles,  president  of  the  M.  H.  Sherman  Investment  Company  and 
also  a  director  in  many  other  corporations  in  California  and  Arizona,  and  is  an 
extensive  property  owner.  He  is  a  member  of  the  California  Club,  Jonathan 
Club,  Country  Club  and  other  social  and  business  organizations  at  Los  Angeles 
and  elsewhere. 

General  Sherman  married,  in  1885,  Harriet  E.  Pratt.  Her  father,  R.  H. 
Pratt,  was  one  of  the  distinguished  builders  of  the  Central  Pacific  Railway. 
They  have  three  children,  Robert,  Hazeltine  and  Lucy. 


leCompte  Babte 


ROBABLY  no  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  bar  is  more  fre- 
quently referred  to  and  in  terms  of  respect  and  admiration 
by  his  fellow  associates  as  LeCompte  Davis,  who  has  been  a 
resident  of  Southern  California  for  over  thirty  years.  Le- 
Compte Davis  is  a  scholarly  lawyer,  takes  delight  in  litera- 
ture and  a  broad  range  of  studies,  not  least  in  the  book  of 
human  life  itself,  and  has  achieved  distinction  all  over  the 
West  as  a  criminal  lawyer. 
He  was  born  in  Mercer  County,  Kentucky,  May  1,  1864,  a  son  of  Henry 
Clay  and  Josephine  (LeCompte)  Davis.  He  was  educated  in  the  common 
schools  of  Kentucky,  graduated  with  the  law  degree  from  Centre  College,  at 
Danville,  Kentucky,  in  1887,  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  his  native  state,  and 
in  the  same  year  came  to  Los  Angeles  and  began  practice.  He  served  one 
term  of  two  years  as  assistant  district  attorney  of  Los  Angeles  County,  and 
left  that  office  in  1895  to  form  a  partnership  with  Judson  R.  Rush.  The 
firm  of  Davis  &  Rush  has  been  in  existence  now  nearly  a  quarter  of  a  century. 
It  has  been  especially  distinguished  for  its  successful  work  in  criminal  trials. 
The  firm  has  been  represented  in  over  sixty  murder  cases.  Mr.  Davis  was 
associated  in  the  defense  of  the  celebrated  McNamara  dynamiting  cases,  and 
later  was  associated  in  the  defense  of  the  noted  Chicago  lawyer,  Clarence 
Darrow,  accused  of  bribery  in  those  cases.  In  1908  Mr.  Davis  defended  three 
prominent  men  accused  in  the  Oregon  land  fraud  cases  and  secured  acquittals 
in  two  instances.  He  was  also  a  lawyer  in  the  defense  in  the  Imperial  Valley 
land  fraud  eases  in  1909.  Undoubtedly  he  is  one  of  the  most  eloquent  and 
forceful  pleaders  who  have  appeared  in  the  courts  of  the  Pacific  Coast  during 
the  last  three  decades. 

Mr.  Davis  is  a  member  of  the  American  Bar  Association.  His  hobby  is 
books,  and  his  private  library  contains  more  than  six  thousand  volumes,  be- 
sides a  rare  collection  of  old  engravings  and  paintings.  April  18,  1908,  at 
Ventura,  California,  Mr.  Davis  married  Edythe  Gilman. 


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|NE  of  the  oldest  legal  partnerships  in  Southern  California  is 
that  of  Davis  &  Rush  with  offices  in  the  Bryson  Building. 
Judson  Randolph  Rush  and  LeCompte  Davis  as  young  lawyers 
were  deputies  in  the  district  attorney's  offices  at  Los  Angeles. 
They  resigned  January  7,  1895,  establishing  a  partnership 
the  same  day,  and  it  is  said  that  in  the  afternoon  of  that  day 
'    they  tried  their  first  case.   Their  first  offices  were  in  a  build- 


ing on  the  site  of  the  present  Hall  of  Records.  These  well 
known  lawyers  had  one  other  associate,  Frank  R.  Willis,  for  six  years,  until 
Mr.  Willis  was  elected  to  the  Superior  bench.  Many  of  the  prominent  cases 
in  the  courts  of  Southern  California  have  been  handled  by  Davis  &  Rush, 
and  their  practice  has  also  extended  to  the  states  of  Oregon  and  Washington. 

Mr.  Rush,  who  is  an  old  time  Californian  and  a  man  of  wide  and  varied 
business  experience,  was  born  in  Greene  County,  Pennsylvania,  March  9,  1865, 
son  of  John  L.  S.  and  Dorcas  (Parcell)  Rush.  The  Rush  family  have  been 
residents  of  Pennsylvania  through  five  generations,  the  immigrant  ancestor 
having  distinguished  himself  as  an  Indian  fighter.  Mr.  Rush  was  born  in 
the  same  house  as  his  grandfather. 

In  early  boyhood  his  parents  removed  to  Iowa  where  he  attended  common 
schools  and  in  1881  he  came  to  Santa  Ana,  California,  and  spent  three  years 
as  a  cowboy  and  hunting  in  the  mountains,  living  the  typical  life  of  the 
western  frontiersman.  In  1886  he  engaged  in  the  dairy  business  with  his  father 
at  Pasadena,  and  also  played  a  pioneer  part  in  the  oil  industry  of  California, 
working  on  the  first  well  in  the  Fullerton  district.  Three  years  he  also  con- 
ducted a  prosperous  meat  market  business  at  Monrovia  and  El  Monte. 

The  turning  point  of  his  career  came  with  his  election  as  justice  of  the 
peace  for  El  Monte,  an  office  he  held  from  1890  to  1892.  When  his  official 
calendar  was  not  filled  he  spent  his  leisure  in  studying  law  under  his  own 
direction,  and  worked  to  such  good  purpose  that  he  passed  the  bar  examina- 
tion in  1893,  and  a  few  months  later  was  appointed  one  of  the  deputy  district 
attorneys.  Mr.  Rush  has  always  been  interested  in  good  government  and  in 
1908  ran  far  ahead  of  his  ticket  as  democratic  candidate  for  Congress  in  the 
Southern  California  District.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Bar  Asso- 
ciation, a  thirty-second  degree  Mason  and  Shriner,  an  Elk  and  a  member  of 
the  Gamut  Club.  Mr.  Rush  married  Miss  Augusta  D.  Salzen,  March  18,  1918, 
in  Glendora,  California. 


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AVID  McNAIR,  a  wealthy  and  prominent  Canadian  lumberman 
and  manufacturer,  came  to  San  Diego,  California,  with  his 
family  about  twenty  years  ago,  and  fifteen  years  ago  moved  to 
Los  Angeles  and  built  the  beautiful  home  which  his  family  now 
occupies  at -625  Kingsley  Drive,  it  being  one  of  the  first  homes 
on  that  now  noted  thoroughfare. 

Mr.  McNair,  who  died  in  the  beautiful  surroundings  his 
wealth  and  good  taste  had  created,  and  honored  and  respected 
by  many  prominent  Southern  Californians,  on  January  25,  1920,  was  born  at 
River  Louison,  New  Brunswick,  Canada,  September  13,  1842,  son  of  John  and 
Elizabeth  (Kelso)  McNair  and  grandson  of  Nathaniel  and  Elizabeth  (McKenzie) 
McNair.  His  father  was  of  a  prominent  and  wealthy  Scotch  Highland  family, 
and  came  from  Campbellton,  Argyleshire,  Scotland,  to  New  Brunswick  on  a 
sailing  vessel  at  a  very  early  day  (1819),  when  crossing  the  ocean  was  a  matter 
of  three  months  or  more.  John  McNair  took  up  the  lumber  business  in  Eastern 
Canada,  and  owned  several  timber  mills  and  a  fleet  of  sailing  vessels  to  ship  the 
product  to  England. 

David  McNair  was  educated  in  New  Brunswick,  and  after  leaving  school 
took  up  the  lumber  business  with  his  father.  Later  he  utilized  his  experience  in 
the  new  and  pioneer  districts  of  the  Pacific  Coast,  the  British  Columbia  forests, 
going  to  Western  Canada  in  company  with  John  Hendry  and  establishing  his 
home  and  business  headquarters  at  New  Westminster  and  later  moved  to  Van- 
couver. There  he  was  associated  with  John  Hendry  in  the  sawmilling  business 
at  Nanaimo,  and  subsequently  they  formed  the  Royal  City  Planing  Mills  of  New 
Westminster.  The  British  Columbia  Mills  Timber  and  Trading  Company  was 
incorporated  by  Mr.  McNair,  Mr.  Hendry  and  Mr.  Beecher  in  the  early  nineties, 
this  new  corporation  absorbing  the  properties  of  the  Royal  City  Planing  Mills 
and  the  Hastings  Sawmill  Company.  Mr.  McNair  was  one  of  the  first  lumber- 
men to  develop  the  timber  resources  of  British  Columbia  on  a  large  commercial 
scale.  He  was  an  eminently  practical  man,  possessed  of  all  the  typical  virtues 
of  northern  lumbermen,  and  was  a  recognized  authority  upon  every  phase  of 
the  industry.  His  part  of  the  work  was  surveying  and  securing  the  timber. 
He  continued  his  associations  with  the  British  Columbia  Mills  Timber  and  Trad- 
ing Company  until  in  recent  years,  after  coming  to  California.  He  came  to 
Southern  California  for  the  benefit  of  Mrs.  McNair 's  health.  In  California  Mr. 
McNair  became  interested  in  real  estate  and  the  general  development  of  Los 
Angeles  and  vicinity.  He  was  one  of  the  directors  of  the  Angeles  Mesa  Land 
Company  and  the  Mission  Land  Company  at  San  Fernando. 

April  13,  1881,  Mr.  McNair  married  Marion  Hendry,  who  was  born  at  Belle- 
dune,  New  Brunswick.  Her  parents,  James  and  Margaret  (Wilson)  Hendry, 
had  sailed  from  Ardrosson,  Scotland,  for  Chaleur  Bay  April  6,  1832,  on  the 
ship  Margaret  Ritchie.  Mrs.  McNair  died  in  Los  Angeles  April  14,  1920.  The 
late  Mr.  McNair  was  always  faithful  to  his  training  as  a  Scotch  Presbyterian  and 
was  an  elder  in  the  church  for  many  years.  He  was  also  one  of  the  early  members 
of  the  Los  Angeles  Country  Club. 

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He  is  survived  by  two  brothers,  Mr.  Alexander  McNair  of  Vancouver  and 
John  McNair  of  Minneapolis,  and  one  sister,  Mrs.  Daniel  McMillan  of  Ottawa. 

The  family  home  at  Los  Angeles  is  now  occupied  by  the  daughter,  Miss 
Ethelyn  McNair.  There  are  two  other  daughters,  Mrs.  Henry  Browning  Landes, 
of  Los  Angeles,  and  Mrs.  Colin  Defries,  of  London,  England.  Their  oldest  child, 
a  son,  died  when  a  baby  at  New  Westminster.  Mrs.  Defries  has  two  children, 
Joan  Elizabeth  and  Madeline  Darcy. 


Hancock  panning 


SON  of  one  of  the  Southern  California's  most  conspicuous 
pioneer  characters,  the  late  General  Phineas  Banning,  Hancock 
Banning  has  to  his  credit  more  than  thirty -seven  years  of  busi- 
ness activity  in  and  around  Los  Angeles.  A  practical  business 
man  and  large  property  owner,  his  influence  has  been  a  helpful 
factor  in  a  number  of  modern  developments  in  the  life  and 
progress  of  the  greater  city. 

He  was  born  at  Wilmington,  Los  Angeles  County,  May  12, 
1865.  He  acquired  his  early  education  in  public  schools  and  on  his  father's 
vessels  and  has  held  a  master  mariner's  license  from  the  United  States  Govern- 
ment since  he  was  twenty-one  years  of  age.  After  completing  a  business  college 
course  he  undertook  his  first  business  venture  at  Pasadena,  where  he  estab- 
lished the  Pasadena  Transfer  and  Fuel  Company,  and  afterwards  moved  to 
Los  Angeles,  where  in  1889  he  established  a  wholesale  coal  department.  The 
Pasadena  branch  was  sold  in  1891,  and  later  his  business  was  operated  under 
the  name  Banning  Company,  he  being  manager  of  its  fuel  department.  Mr. 
Banning  was  an  equal  stockholder  with  two  brothers  in  the  Banning  Company, 
his  brothers  being  J.  B.  and  William  Banning.  This  corporation  owned  extensive 
real  estate  holdings  in  Los  Angeles  and  on  the  Wilmington  water  front,  now 
part  of  Los  Angeles  harbor. 

Hancock  Banning  was  for  more  than  twenty-five  years  vice-president  of  the 
Santa  Catalina  Island  Company.  His  brother,  William  Banning,  organized  and 
was  president  of  this  company.  Hancock  had  an  equal  interest  with  William 
and  his  other  brother,  J.  B.  Banning,  in  the  ownership  of  Santa  Catalina  Island 
until  1919,  when  they  disposed  of  their  interests  in  this  famous  resort  to  the 
Chicago  capitalist,  William  Wrigley,  Jr.  Prior  to  that  time  the  Bannings 
had  completed  the  Hotel  St.  Catherine,  which  together  with  the  company 
steamers  Cabrillo  and  Hermosa  and  other  improvements  represented  an  invest- 
ment by  them  of  over  two  million  dollars. 

Mr.  Banning  now  makes  his  home  at  the  old  Banning  mansion  at  Wilming- 
ton, where  he  was  born.  That  home  had  also  sheltered  his  grandmother,  and 
Mr.  Banning 's  granddaughter  has  lived  there,  thus  giving  it  the  associations  of 
five  generations.  Mr.  Banning  is  a  member  of  the  Native  Sons  of  the  Golden 
West,  the  California,  Jonathan,  Los  Angeles  Country  and  Los  Angeles  Athletic 
clubs  of  Los  Angeles  and  the  Bohemian  Club  of  San  Francisco.  He  is 
a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Chamber  of  Commerce  and  is  a  Hoover  republican 
in  politics. 

In  November,  1890,  at  Los  Angeles,  he  married  Anne  Ophelia  Smith,  daugh- 
ter of  former  Judge  George  H.  Smith  of  the  Appellate  Court  of  California.  Since 
her  marriage  Mrs.  Banning  has  been  very  active  in  many  social  and  patriotic 
movements.  During  the  war  she  originated  the  plan  and  established  what  was 
called  the  "Red  Cross  Shop"  serving  as  president  of  the  Los  Angeles  branch. 
This  shop  idea  was  afterward  carried  out  in  many  cities  of  the  United  States, 
and  not  only  the  Red  Cross  but  other  charitable  institutions  have  adopted  the 
idea.    During  the  war  the  Red  Cross  Shop  did  a  business  aggregating  millions 

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of  dollars,  and  the  plan  is  still  yielding  great  returns  to  various  charitable  organi- 
zations. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Banning  have  a  daughter  and  two  sons.  The  daughter,  Eleanor 
Anne,  is  a  graduate  of  the  Marlboro  School  for  Girls  at  Los  Angeles,  attended 
the  Miss  Spence  School  of  New  York  City  and  the  State  University  of  California. 
She  was  married  to  J.  C.  MacParland,  nephew  of  Judge  MacFarland  of  the  State 
Supreme  Court.   Mr.  and  Mrs.  MacFarland  have  a  daughter,  Anne  Banning. 

The  older  son,  Hancock  Banning,  Jr.,  born  in  1893,  is  a  graduate  of  the 
Virginia  Military  Institute  and  Cornell  University.  At  the  outbreak  of  the  war 
with  Germany  he  abandoned  his  work  as  an  apprentice  at  electrical  engineering 
in  the  General  Electric  Company's  plant  at  Schnectady,  New  York,  to  enlist  in 
the  navy.  He  was  serving  on  the  U.  S.  Battleship  "New  York"  at  the  time  of 
the  armistice  and  served  until  discharged  after  the  signing  of  the  same  with  the 
rank  of  lieutenant  of  the  junior  grade.  He  has  since  resumed  his  work  with  the 
General  Electric  Company. 

The  second  son,  George  Hugh,  born  in  1896,  h'eld  rank  as  a  second  lieutenant 
when  discharged  from  the  Aviation,  Corps.  He  had  studied  and  taught  flying 
at  San  Antonio,  Texas,  San  Diego  and  Sacramento.  Since  the  war  he  has  grad- 
uted  from  the  University  of  California.  George  Hugh  possesses  distinctive 
literary  gifts.  With  a  fellow  student  he  collaborated  a  comedy  which  was  selected 
in  competition  with  other  aspiring  dramatists  of  the  university,  and  was  success- 
fully produced  at  Berkeley.  He  is  also  a  navigator  of  sailing  and  steam  vessels, 
having  served  his  time  at  sea  before  the  mast,  and  having  studied  navigation 
both  at  college  and  during  his  practical  apprenticeship  at  sea.  He  is  at  this  writ- 
ing on  the  "Chronicle"  newspaper  force. 


£ng  by£  G  Williams  i,  Bra  MY 


'HE  RED  CROSS  SHOP  as  a  distinctive  feature  of  the  auxiliary 
war  work  originated  in  Los  Angeles,  and  the  mind  and  heart 
from  which  proceeded  the  great  and  fertile  idea  were  those 
of  Mrs.  Hancock  Banning.  It  is  due  the  shop  as  an  institu- 
tion, to  Mrs.  Banning  and  her  associates,  to  make  some  par- 
ticular reference  to  the  institution  and  its  work.  The  best  ac- 
count is  found  in  an  article  written  in  the  summer  of  1918, 
when  the  war  was  at  its  height. 
"More  than  a  year  ago,"  says  Ruth  Burke  Stephens,  "I  had  the  pleasure 
of  learning  something  of  Mrs.  Banning 's  original  plans  for  the  Red  Cross  Shop. 
Even  then  the  contagion  of  her  idea,  illuminated  with  her  own  enthusiastic  faith 
in  its  ultimate  success,  spread  to  {he  little  group  of  friends  to  whom  her  plans 
in  detail  were  confided.  With  one  exception,  this  original  plan  has  been  care- 
fully adhered  to,  and  so  complete  was  the  conception  in  its  initial  details  that 
but  few  new  ideas  have  been  incorporated. 

"The  Red  Cross  Shop  in  all  its  many  ramifications  is  nothing  short  of 
wonderful,  and  particularly  is  this  so  when  one  considers  that  it  is  essentially 
a  big  commercial  business,  successfully  conducted  by  women  who  before  the  war 
scarcely  knew  the  value  of  money,  and  nothing  whatever  of  business  principles. 
Without  the  co-operation  and  the  enthusiastic  interest  of  her  copatriots,  Mrs. 
Banning 's  plan  could,  however,  never  have  developed  to  the  advanced  state  of 
realization,  that  it  has  now  reached.  It  is  the  very  spirit  behind  the  plan,  the 
great  integral  factors  of  self-sacrifice  and  democracy  which  has  carried  the  idea 
along  like  a  swiftly  propelled  boat  ifc  the  surge  of  a  well  directed  current. 

"When  Mrs.  Banning  first  planned  the  Red  Cross  Shop  I  think  she  herself 
nearer  realized  than  did  any  other  just  hofp  far-reaching  would  be  its  scope,  for 
her  hope  even  then  was  for  a  nation-wide  emulation  of  the  Red  Cross  Shop. 
The  plan,  as  it  is  now  in  force,  was  evolved  from  a  before-the-war  idea  of  Mrs. 
Banning  for  the  establishment  of  an  organization  which  should  carry  on  'relief 
work  in  the  various  centers  of  the  United  States,  under  the  name  of  the  'Grey 
Sisterhood,'  and  working  in  a  manner  somewhat  similar  in  plan  to  that  of  the 
' Miseracordia  Society'  of  Italy.  It  is  significant  that  while  Mrs.  Banning 's 
original  idea  became  through  her  enthusiastic  interest  a  co-operative  part  of  the 
Red  Cross,  that  the  designating  costume  worn  by  the  women  is  a  soft  grey  gown 
with  white  collars,  cuffs  and  apron. 

"Briefly  outlined  by  Mrs.  Banning  at  the  time  she  first  set  forth  to  Harvey 
D.  Gibson,  manager  of  the  American  Red  Cross,  her  original  Red  Cross  Shop 
plan,  the  dominating  idea  was  to  be  one  of  democracy  and  sacrificial  giving — 
of  time,  of  money  and  of  gifts  from  which  benefit  to  the  Red  Cross  funds  would 
accrue.  With  tireless  and  unstinted  energy  the  women  who  have  become  in- 
terested in  the  project  have  given  of  their  time  and  strength.  There  are  no 
salaries  paid  except  to  the  Japanese  boy  helpers  and  the  janitor.  Through  the 
patriotic  generosity  of  Mrs.  J.  M.  Danziger,  the  beautiful  Canfield  home  at  Eighth 
and  Alvarado  streets  has  been  turned  over  to  the  cause  and  the  commodious 
garage  converted  into  headquarters  for  the  shop.  Disbursements  from  the  gross 
receipts  are  of  infinitesimal  amount,  practically  everything  being  donated,  even 

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to  the  postage  stamps  and  stationery,  which  are  personally  given.  Bookkeeping, 
stenography  and  publicity  are  given  gratis  by  women  whose  talents  are  adaptive 
to  such  special  lines  of  work,  while  the  many  needs  for  repair  work  in  the  recon- 
struction of  broken  furniture,  clocks,  toys,  the  mending  of  clothing,  millinery, 
etc.,  are  met  by  patriotic  volunteers  who  are  happy  to  give  of  their  time  and 
skill  to  the  worthy  cause.  It  is  this  democracy  of  spirit  which  illuminates  the 
success  of  the  shop.  And  it  is  this  great  conception  of  sacrifice  and  giving  that 
has  so  unified  the  women  of  the  city  in  the  one  splendid  purpose.  Many  of  the 
girls  who  labor  in  the  downtown  stores  eight  hours  in  the  day,  six  days  a  week, 
have  assumed  the  responsibility  of  devoting  a  part  of  their  precious  spare  time 
to  the  Red  Cross  Shop  work.  Nimble  fingers  of  many  an  humble  artisan  are 
doing  their  bit  with  glad  patriotism,  and  it  is  by  this  means  that  the  expenditures 
of  the  shop  are  kept  down  to  the  minimum. 

"Merchants  of  the  city  have  been  equally  as  generous  in  their  co-operation, 
this  despite  the  fact  that  from  a  purely  business  standpoint  they  might  consider 
the  project  an  infringement  upon  their  own  commercial  enterprises.  Not  only 
are  the  merchants  generously  responsive  to  the  specific  calls  made  upon  them, 
but  they  have  aided  immeasurably  by  instructing  the  women  workers  of  the  shop 
in  the  basic  principles  of  salesmanship,  all  of  which  has  been  of  vast  benefit. 

' '  While  naturally  the  credit  for  the  Red  Cross  Shop  plan  reflects  directly 
back  upon  Mrs.  Hancock  Banning,  whose  brilliant  and  comprehensive  idea  was 
its  origin,  yet,  with  all  due  modesty,  Mrs.  Banning  attributes  the  success  of  the 
shop  to  the  wonderful  spirit  of  the  women  who  are  allied  in  the  great  work,  not 
only  those  who  are  devoting  themselves  to  the  actual  operation  of  the  shop,  but 
to  each  and  every  individual  who  donates  something  to  the  cause,  whether  it 
be  an  article  of  intrinsic  or  sentimental  value,  talents  and  artisanship,  or  just 
one's  time,  which  to  many  men  and  women  involved  in  the  fatiguing  struggle  for 
a  livelihood  is  a  priceless  gift.  And  those  who  patronize  the  shop  are  like- 
wise 'doing  their  bit'  in  contributing  to  the  success  of  the  institution. 

"Mrs.  Hancock  Banning  as  general  manager  of  the  Red  Cross  Shop  has  as 
her  'right  hand  bower'  Mrs.  J.  M.  Danziger,  assistant  manager,  who  in  addition  to 
the  loaning  of  her  home  for  the  duration  of  the* war  has  devoted  her  entire  time 
with  unflagging  zeal  to  the  work  and  has  aided  in  many  material  ways  to  the 
success  of  the  project.  Mr.  George  Fusenot,  assistant  shop  official,  has  lent  an 
invaluable  aid  to  the  women,  giving  of  his  own  experience  as  former  proprietor 
of  the  Ville  de  Paris.  Mrs.  R.  A.  Heffner  and  Mrs.  A.  G.  Faulkner,  secretary  and 
treasurer,  respectively,  are  fulfilling  their  executive  offices  with  utmost  credit. 
Mrs.  Charles  Jeffras,  chairman  of  the  floor  committee,  who  has  responsibilities 
of  manifold  character,  has  recently  brought  into  her  work  a  new  and  splendid 
plan — that  of  enlisting  the  active  interest  and  co-operation  of  the  women  of 
the  various  department  stores  of  the  city,  each  of  which  will  assume  complete 
charge  of  a  Saturday  program  at  the  shop  during  the  summer  months. 

"Mrs.  Edwin  R.  Collins,  aside  from  her  office  as  director  of  the  entertain- 
ment committee,  which  involves  the  work  of  securing  famous  stage  and  screen 
stars  as  participants  and  staging  other  ci'owd-drawing  attractions  for  the  Tea 
Room,  has  also  undertaken,  successfully,  the  work  of  publicity  director,  which 
means  the  daily  'peddling'  of  shop  news  items  to  the  various  newspapers  for 
publication. 

"Mrs.  Clarence  Hoblitzelle,  chairman  of  the  art  department  ;  Mrs.  H.  B.  Mac- 
Beth,  in  charge  of  the  automobile  service;  Mrs.  J.  Arthur  Wright,  manager  of  the 
Tea  Room;  Mrs.  R.  E.  Wells,  in  charge  of  the  Red  Cross  Shop  branch  at  Tenth 
and  Main  streets,  are  all  filling  departments  equally  as  important  to  the  success 
of  the  shop  as  a  whole. 

"The  stockroom,  occupying  a  spacious  part  of  the  second  floor  of  the  build- 
ing, is  in  charge  of  Mrs.  Franklyn  Booth,  and  it  is  hero  that  surplus  stock  is 
stored,  and  where  all  articles  upon  receipt  are  sorted  out,  priced,  and  if  in  un- 


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salable  condition  are  sent  out  to  be  repaired,  cleaned  and  in  other  manner  con- 
verted into  desirable  commodities  for  sale. 

"Mrs.  Jaro  von  Schmidt  is  in  charge  of  the  children's  clothing  department, 
while  the  women's  apparel  is  under  the  jurisdiction  of  Mrs.  Harry  Dana  Lom- 
bard, and  the  men's  wearing  apparel  department  is  under  the  direction  of  Mrs. 
G.  Martyn. 

"Mrs.  Frank  Griffith  is  at  the  head  of  the  fancy  work  committee,  Mrs. 
Homer  Laughlin,  Jr.,  is  in  charge  of  the  jewelry  department,  and  Mrs.  C.  R. 
Bradford  directs  the  Kinema  Tea  Room.  Jams  and  jellies  and  their  allies  are  in 
charge  of  Mrs.  S.  Dunlop ;  Mrs.  S.  J.  Meyberg  supervises  the  work  of  the  toy 
departments;  Mrs.  W.  A.  Foreman  has  charge  of  the  uniforms,  while  Mrs. 
Hallett  Johnson  presides  over  the  shoe  department. 

' '  These  represent  only  the  larger  divisions  of  the  work,  each  of  which  is  aug- 
mented by  many  branches  and  an  enthusiastic  corps  of  workers.  The  reconstruc- 
tion bureau,  under  the  management  of  Mrs.  F.  W.  Poore,  is  an  important  branch 
of  the  work ;  the  outside  sewing,  under  the  direction  of  Mrs.  James ;  the  Lilli- 
putian work  shop  in  charge  of  Miss  Winifred  Ballard ;  the  art  shop  under  direc- 
tion of  Mrs.  Robert  Farquhar — all  of  these  are  component  parts  of  the  Red 
Cross  Shop. 

"This  is  perhaps  an  opportune  place  to  touch  upon  the  salvage  branch  and 
to  differentiate  between  this  phase  of  the  Red  Cross  work  and  that  of  the  Red 
Cross  Shop.  The  salvage  plan,  distinctly  separate  from  the  Red  Cross  Shop, 
originated  by  Mrs.  Banning,  is  accredited  to  Mrs.  Othman  Stevens,  who  con- 
ceived the  idea  of  collecting  such  waste  as  tinfoil,  old  automobile  tires,  old 
papers  and  typewriter  metals  and  marketing  them.  As  succinctly  expressed 
by  a  friend  the  other  day,  the  Red  Cross  Shop  exemplifies  the  idea  of  giving 
from  unwholesome  hoarding,  of  generosity  of  spirit,  of  giving  from  the  sense  of 
wishing  to  share,  of  self-denial  and  sacrifice.  While  on  the  other  hand,  the  salvage 
idea  educates  along  the  lines  of  unselfish  thrift.  Individually  it  means  nothing, 
but  collectively,  backed  by  the  Red  Cross  spirit,  it  is  the  source  of  an  appreciable 
income. 

"From  a  money-making  point  of  view  the  Red  Cross  Shop  takes  rank  with 
'big  business,'  since  within  a  period  of  nine  months  it  has  netted  a  profit  of 
a  hundred  fifteen  thousand  dollars,  with  the  prospect  of  going  over  the  quarter 
of  a  million  mark  before  the  close  of  the  fiscal  year.  The  net  receipts  for  the 
months  of  May  were  $11,355.11,  which  against  the  gross  receipts  of  $12,125.80 
gives  an  idea  of  the  correspondingly  small  amount  disbursed  for  expenses.  The 
June  receipts  mounted  even  higher,  the  profits  reaching  $12,000  for  the  month — 
representing  plain,  straightforward  sales,  since  there  were  no  entertainments 
or  special  benefit  features  given  during  this  period. 

"It  is  a  colossal  enterprise — the  Red  Cross  Shop — and  one  which  reflects 
the  spirit  of  the  American  women — a  spirit  that  arises  far  above  the  pettiness  of 
class  distinction  and  unifies  womankind  in  one  great  democratic  purpose,  the  big 
vital  issue  of  GIVING  to  relieve  the  distress  which  follows  in  the  wake  of  this 
great  surging  world  conflict." 


ILLIAM  H.  DAUM  came  to  Southern  California  as  industrial 
commissioner  for  the  Santa  Pe  Railway  Company,  but  soon  re- 
signed and  has  since  specialized  in  an  almost  unique  profession, 
largely  along  the  line  of  his  former  experience  as  a  railroad 
industrial  commissioner.  Mr.  Daum  is  credited  with  an  im- 
portant share  of  the  enterprise  and  influence  through  which  a 
score  or  more  of  industries  have  been  located  and  developed  in 
and  around  Los  Angeles. 
Mr.  Daum  was  born  at  Nortonville,  Kansas,  September  11,  1883,  and  all  his 
early  experience  was  in  railroading.  His  parents  were  William  and  Margaret 
(Payne)  Daum.  He  attended  the  public  schools  of  Nortonville  and  graduating 
from  the  high  school  at  Topeka,  Kansas,  in  1897,  and  soon  afterward  went  to 
work  for  the  Santa  Fe  Railway  as  freight  clerk  and  handler  at  Meriden,  Kansas. 
The  first  year  he  was  paid  twenty  dollars  a  month.  He  was  then  telegraph 
operator  at  Atchison  six  months,  was  transferred  as  telegraph  operator  to  Mel- 
vern,  Kansas,  then  to  Barclay,  and  in  1900  returned  to  Atchison  as  night  agent. 
In  1903  the  company  sent  him  to  Topeka  as  train  dispatcher,  and  in  1904  moved 
him  further  west  to  Albuquerque,  where  he  had  charge  of  the  telegraph  depart- 
ment until  December  of  that  year.  He  was  then  made  agent  of  the  Santa  Fe 
at  Holbrook,  Arizona,  and  while  there  was  in  the  cattle  business  on  the  side. 
In  1906  he  became  superintendent  of  terminals  for  the  Santa  Fe  Railway  Com- 
pany at  Seligman,  Arizona. 

In  1907  Mr.  Daum  moved  his  headquarters  to  Los  Angeles  as  industrial 
commissioner  for  the  Santa  Fe  lines  west  of  Albuquerque.  He  continued  this 
work  for  five  years,  and  in  1912  resigned  to  engage  in  the  industrial  realty  busi- 
ness for  himself. 

He  was  interested  in  the  first  big  modern  lemon  packing  and  storage  house, 
locating  it  at  San  Dimas.  He  located  a  dozen  fruit  packing  houses  in  Southern 
California,  and  was  associated  with  A.  S.  Bradford  in  starting  the  town  of 
Placentia.  During  his  service  as  industrial  commissioner  for  the  Santa  Fe  he 
was  instrumental  in  locating  two  hundred  twenty-three  industries,  a  hundred 
seventy-five  of  them  in  Southern  California. 

Some  of  the  important  industries  which  have  been  established  with  Mr. 
Daum  handling  more  or  less  of  the  negotiations  are  the  American  Can  Company, 
Republic  Motor  Truck  Company,  Griffin  Car  Wheel  Company,  American  Brake 
Shoe  &  Foundry  Company,  Globe  Oil  Mills,  California  Cotton  Oil  Company, 
Federal  Box  Company,  Pacific  Portable  Construction  Company,  Pan-American 
Petroleum  Company,  Charles  R.  McCormack  Lumber  Company  of  Los  Angeles 
and  San  Diego.  Very  recently  Mr.  Daum  had  charge  of  the  arrangements 
through  which  the  Goodyear  Tire  &  Rubber  Company  of  Akron,  Ohio,  established 
its  twenty-six  million  dollar  rubber  and  cotton  mill  plant  in  Southern  California. 

A  tremendous  amount  of  interest  has  been  aroused  by  the  coming  of  the 
Goodyear  Company  to  Los  Angeles.  The  rubber  and  cotton  mill  plant,  when  in 
full  operation,  will  employ  eight  thousand  people,  and  it  is  the  largest  single 
industry  ever  established  west  of  the  Rocky  Mountains.  Mr.  Daum  has  recently 
figured  in  the  discussions  of  plans,  based  partly  on  the  Goodyear  enterprise, 

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and  the  logical  development  of  natural  resources  and  advantages  of  Southern 
California  toward  making  Los  Angeles  the  center  of  air  navigation  and  trans- 
portation for  America.  The  fact  that  practical  business  men  like  Mr.  Daum  are 
working  on  such  plans  is  a  striking  illustration  of  the  splendid  advances  made  in 
aeronautics  during  the  past  five  years. 

Mr.  Daum  is  manager  and  director  of  the  Factory  Site  Company,  is  vice 
president  and  director  of  the  Sunset  Park  Land  Company,  manager  of  the 
Industrial  Center  Corporation,  and  manager  of  the  Artesian  Land  Company. 
He  is  a  Scottish  Rite  Mason  and  Shriner,  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Athletic 
Club,  is  independent  in  politics  and  is  affiliated  with  the  Congregational  Church. 
At  Atchison,  Kansas,  June  19,  1906,  he  married  Mary  Rose.  Their  four  children 
are :  Elizabeth  Rose,  born  in  1907 ;  Dorothy  Marian,  born  in  1911 ;  William 
Howard,  Jr.,  born  in  1913,  and  Richard  Hampton,  born  in  1915. 


VHARLES  KOSSOUTH  BOOK  came  to  Los  Angeles  twenty-two 
/  years  ago  in  1898.  At  that  time  as  well  as  since  he  enjoyed  an 
\  enviable  reputation  among  the  practical  oil  experts  of  America. 
£  He  was  born  and  reared  in  the  atmosphere  of  the  petroleum 
/  industry  in  western  Pennsylvania.  He  came  from  a  family 
S  of  forceful  business  executives  and  as  a  young  man  he  began 
K  his  explorations  and  observations,  operating  oil  rigs  and  drill- 
ing all  over  the  hills  of  western  Pennsylvania.  He  was  promi- 
nent in  the  petroleum  industry  of  California. 

Mr.  Book,  who  died  after  a  brief  illness  of  one  week,  February  4,  1920,  was 
born  at  Newcastle,  Pennsylvania,  in  September,  1851.  His  parents  were  Colonel 
William  and  Ann  Emery  Book.  His  mother  was  related  to  Lord  Harland  of 
England.  Colonel  William  Book  held  his  rank  from  service  in  the  Pennslyvania 
Militia,  and  he  drilled  a  number  of  companies  at  Newcastle  for  the  Civil  War. 
Grandfather  Book  was  a  Revolutionary  soldier.  All  the  brothers  of  Charles 
K.  Book  were  in  the  Civil  War,  including  Dr.  W.  P.  Book,  Captain  J.  S.  Book 
and  Rear  Admiral  G.  M.  Book,  the  two  latter  of  Los  Angeles. 

Charles  Kossouth  Book  was  but  ten  when  the  war  began.  He  wanted  to 
enlist,  but  was  prevented  by  his  age,  but  he  became  drummer  and  acquiring  a 
uniform,  organized  a  company  of  boys.  He  was  known  as  ' '  the  Drummer  Boy, ' ' 
and  as  a  paper  remarked,  "Did  more  than  any  other  single  individual  to  boost 
enlistments  in  Lawrence  County." 

At  thirteen  he  saved  a  boy  from  drowning  in  the  Shenango  River. 
After  finishing  his  education  at  Martin  Gantz  School,  Charles  K.  Book 
went  into  the  oil  business  near  Oil  City,  later  operated  in  the  Bradford  oil 
fields,  and  for  a  number  of  years  was  associated  with  his  brother  Dr.  W.  P. 
Book.  While  engaged  in  the  practical  business  of  drilling  wells  he  made  his 
home  at  Bradford  and  Jamestown,  New  York,  for  twenty-two  years. 

After  coming  to  Los  Angeles  he  acquired  interests  in  oil  wells  in  the  imme- 
diate vicinity  of  the  city,  including  one  near  the  site  of  the  old  French  Hos- 
pital. He  owned  the  land  there,  selling  it  about  six  years  before  his  death. 
He  also  operated  on  Kern  River,  drilling  and  bringing  in  some  valuable  prop- 
erties, but  had  disposed  of  his  interests  there  before  his  death.  He  also  at  one 
time  owned  interests  in  the  oil  districts  of  West  Virginia. 

Mr.  Book  was  a  Mason,  being  affiliated  with  the  various  Masonic  bodies  at 
Buffalo  and  Jamestown,  New  York,  including  the  Shrine.  For  many  years  his 
advice  was  eagerly  sought  by  corporations  and  individuals  in  the  oil  industry. 
He  was  a  man  of  broad  vision,  philanthropic  and  liberal,  and  while  achieving 
success  for  himself  helped  others. 

October  3,  1877,  Mr.  Book  married  Miss  Ida  L.  Tyler.  They  were  married  at 
Tyler  Hill,  Pennsylvania,  where  she  was  born,  the  townsite  being  named  in  honor 
of  her  grandfather,  Israel  Tyler.  The  Tylers  are  a  prominent  family  in  that 
section  of  Pennsylvania.  Her  grandfather  was  prominent  in  the  lumber  business, 
as  a  land  owner,  and  at  one  time  owned  an  extensive  group  of  saw  and  planing 
mills,  stores,  flour  mills  and  other  commercial  enterprises.  Much  of  his  time  was 
spent  in  Philadelphia  and  New  York.  Mrs.  Book's  father  was  Moses  Tyler,  a 
merchant.  Mr.  Book  is  survived  by  Mrs.  Book  and  one  daughter,  Dorothy  E. 
Book. 

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MIL  KAYSER,  a  resident  of  Pasadena  for  the  past  thirty-five 
years,  and  a  prominent  merchant  of  Los  Angeles,  came  to  Cali- 
fornia from  Omaha,  Nebraska,  in  1884. 

His  father  for  many  years  was  a  general  merchant  at 
Bellevue  near  Omaha,  Nebraska.  Emil  was  one  of  four  sons 
and  three  daughters  reared  in  that  town,  being  the  only  mem- 
ber of  the  family  in  California.   He  attended  public  school  at 


Bellevue,  but  left  home  at  the  age  of  fourteen.  His  early  busi- 
ness experience  was  acquired  in  Omaha  and  later  in  Denver,  Colorado,  in  which 
city  he  spent  three  years. 

In  the  fall  of  1884  he  came  to  Pasadena  and  associated  himself  with  Mr. 
A.  Cruickshank,  with  whom  he  had  been  first  connected  in  Omaha  in  the  dry 
goods  business.  The  Pasadena  firm  was  known  under  the  name  of  Cruickshank 
&  Company  and  continued  as  general  dry  goods  merchants  there  for  a  number 
of  years. 

On  selling  his  interests  with  Cruickshank  &  Company  Mr.  Kayser  became  a 
partner  of  the  late  F.  B.  Wetherby,  a  prominent  resident  of  Pasadena  whose 
career  has  been  reviewed  elsewhere  in  this  publication.  The  object  of  their 
original  association  was  to  engage  in  the  business  of  real  estate  and  subdividing. 

°  During  1887  and  1888  they  built  the  Wetherby-Kayser  Building  in  Pasadena 
and  started  the  Wetherby-Kayser  Shoe  Company.  That  was  the  beginning  of  the 
big  shoe  business  now  handled  under  the  firm  name  in  Los  Angeles.  A  branch 
store  was  established  at  Second  and  Broadway  in  Los  Angeles  in  1902,  and 
the  following  year  they  sold  the  Pasadena  establishment,  and  made  the  Los 
Angeles  branch  their  headquarters.  In  that  store  they  developed  the  well  founded 
and  highly  standardized  business  which  today  ranks  as  one  of  the  best  of  its 
kind  on  the  Pacific  Coast. 

Mr.  Kayser 's  home  is  still  in  Pasadena,  and  he  continues  to  be  one  of  the 
city's  most  loyal  residents.  He  is  identified  with  the  Valley  Hunt  Club  of 
Pasadena,  is  a  member  of  the  Jonathan  Club  of  Los  Angeles,  and  his  public 
spirit  has  led  him  into  active  participation  with  many  movements  for  the  better- 
ment of  the  community.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  at 
Pasadena. 

On  July  15,  1892,  Mr.  Kayser  married  Miss  Gertrude  Visscher,  of  Pasadena. 
Incidentally  it  should  be  noted  that  he  and  Mr.  Wetherby  married  sisters,  and 
their  business  partnership  was  therefore  the  stronger  welded  by  the  tie  of 
family  relationship.  The  marriage  ceremony  was  performed  at  the  Visscher 
home  on  South  Madison  Avenue,  and  following  this  event  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Kayser 
established  themselves  in  their  own  new  home  at  the  corner  of  Madison  and 
Center  avenues,  in  which  place  they  have  lived  for  over  a  quarter  of  a  century 
and  where  their  four  children  were  born.  The  three  children  living  are  Nancy, 
Frederic  V.  and  Gretchen.  Emily  Gertrude,  the  third  child,  died  in  infancy. 
The  two  daughters,  Nancy  and  Gretchen,  are  well  known  Pasadena  society  girls, 
Gretchen  being  a  student  in  the  Marlborough  School  of  Los  Angeles.  The  son 
Frederic  is  a  Leland  Stanford  man,  now  associated  with  his  father  in  the 
Wetherby-Kayser  Shoe  Company  at  416-418  West  Seventh  Street,  where  the 
attractive  new  store  has  been  in  operation  for  the  past  two  years. 

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CoL  Ctmrlea  ft,  JBrake 


O  ONE  could  desire  a  better  monument  than  the  Virginia  Hotel 
at  Long  Beach  and  the  service  which  it  represents.  While  it 
was  founded  and  built  by  a  stock  company,  Col.  Charles  R. 
Drake  has  from  the  first  been  one  of  the  largest  stockholders 
and  vice  president  of  the  company,  and  since  1907  the  presi- 
dent and  general  manager,  and  the  man  whose  genius  has  given 
the  hotel  its  big  place  in  Southern  California. 

Colonel  Drake,  who  was  born  more  than  three  quarters  of 
a  century  ago,  has  been  a  man  of  means  for  many  years,  but  has  found  the 
real  satisfaction  of  living  in  experience,  and  his  experiences  have  been  romantic 
as  well  as  useful.  He  was  born  at  Walnut  Prairie,  Illinois,  July  26,  1843,  a 
son  of  Charles  and  Mahala  Jane  (Jeter)  Drake.  He  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools  of  Illinois,  and  in  1863,  at  the  age  of  nineteen,  left  a  position  as  a  drug 
clerk  to  volunteer  in  the  United  States  Navy.  He  was  acting  master's  mate 
from  1863  to  1865,  serving  under  Admiral  D.  D.  Porter  in  the  Mississippi 
Squadron.  At  the  end  of  the  war  he  resumed  his  former  occupation  in  New 
York,  but  subsequently  became  hospital  steward  in  the  United  States  Army 
service  under  Surgeon  General  Barnes.  He  was  assigned  to  duty  under  Gen- 
eral Crook,  then  commanding  the  Department  of  Arizona,  and  in  1871  was 
stationed  at  Fort  Lowell,  Tucson,  Arizona.  Some  of  the  most  picturesque  and 
eventful  years  of  his  life  Colonel  Drake  spent  in  Arizona.  After  four  years 
in  the  army  he  retired  to  civil  life  and  was  appointed  postmaster  at  Tucson,  an 
office  he  filled  four  years.  He  also  engaged  in  the  general  insurance  and  real 
estate  business  there.  He  was  elected  county  recorder  in  1881  and  1883  and 
under  President  Harrison  was  appointed  to  the  office  of  receiver  of  public 
monies  in  the  United  States  Land  Office  at  Tucson.  Arizona  was  his  home  for 
thirty  years,  and  he  was  again  and  again  honored  with  offices  of  trust  and 
responsibility,  being  twice  elected  to  the  Territorial  Senate  and  for  one  term 
was  president  of  that  body.  At  the  same  time  he  was  actively  concerned  with 
a  number  of  business  enterprises.  He  organized  in  1893  the  firm  of  Norton- 
Drake  Company,  his  associate  being  the  late  Major  John  H.  Norton.  This 
company  handled  for  many  years  large  labor  contracts  for  the  Southern  Pacific 
Railroad  Company. 

With  a  comfortable  fortune  Colonel  Drake  retired  and  moved  to  Los 
Angeles  in  1900,  but  the  years  of  his  retirement  have  been  marked  by  more 
active  business  connections  than  the  average  man  in  his  prime.  He  was  one 
of  the  first  to  recognize  the  great  possibilities  of  Long  Beach  as  a  popular 
seaside  residence  city.  He  backed  his  judgment  with  large  investments,  and 
has  been  the  means  of  concentrating  an  enormous  amount  of  capital  in  that 
city.  Some  of  his  larger  connections  with  the  development  of  Long  Beach  and 
Southern  California  are  indicated  by  the  following  connections.  He  is  presi- 
dent and  general  manager  and  one  of  the  largest  stockholders  of  the  Seaside 
Water  Company ;  president  and  general  manager  of  the  Long  Beach  Bath 
House  and  Amusement  Company ;  president  and  general  manager  of  the  Seaside 
Investment  Company,  owning  and  operating  the  Hotel  Virginia,  and  financially 
interested  in  many  other  large  business  affairs  at  Long  Beach  and  in  Southern 

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COL.  CHARLES  R.  DRAKE 


California.  Several  of  these  corporations  were  organized  in  1901,  and  Colonel 
Drake  had  as  his  active  associate  then  and  for  a  number  of  years  later  the 
late  Frederick  H.  Rindge,  of  Los  Angeles;  George  I.  Cochran,  president  of  the 
Pacific  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company;  Dr.  W.  W.  Beckett,  medical  director 
of  the  Pacific  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company;  H.  V.  Carter,  president  of  the 
Carter  Motor  Company,  of  San  Francisco,  and  Charles  H.  Howland,  of  Centinella. 

Probably  no  one  institution  has  done  more  to  popularize  the  wonderful 
resources  of  Southern  California  than  the  Virginia  Hotel.  It  covers  an  entire 
block,  430x428  feet,  with  hotel  and  grounds  extending  from  Ocean  Avenue 
to  the  ocean  shore,  its  setting  affording  unexcelled  facilities  for  the  enjoyment 
of  the  seaside  and  all  other  attractions  of  Southern  California's  climate.  The 
Hotel  Virginia  is  beautiful  and  luxurious,  has  developed  a  unique  perfection 
of  service,  and  probably  more  of  the  high  class  social  life  of  California  centers 
around  this  hotel  than  any  other  one  institution. 

Colonel  Drake  is  a  member  of  the  California  Club  of  Los  Angeles,  the  Los 
Angeles  Country  Club  and  is  the  organizer  of  the  Virginia  Country  Club  of 
Long  Beach,  which  is  one  of  the  attractions  for  the  Hotel  Virginia.  He  is 
also  a  member  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  of  Los  Angeles  and  Long  Beach, 
California,  and  a  member  of  several  secret  orders. 

In  1872,  at  Tucson,  Arizona,  Colonel  Drake  married  Agripine  Moreno. 
They  were  the  parents  of  Jean  G.,  William  L.,  Albert  Garfield,  Elizabeth  Jane 
and  Pinita  Rivers  Drake.  On  April  30,  1890,  Colonel  Drake  married  at  Tucson, 
Arizona,  Mrs.  Kate  A.  Seeley.  To  this  marriage  was  born  one  daughter,  Mar- 
guerite Rivers  Drake  (Mrs.  C.  W.  Kemmler).  Colonel  Drake  makes  his  home 
at  the  Hotel  Virginia,  of  which  company  he  is  president  and  general  manager, 
and  still  keeps  in  close  touch  with  the  many  extensive  business  interests  repre- 
sented by  the  corporate  titles  above  mentioned. 


Clarence  Jffl.  Jf  uller 


"CLARENCE  M.  FULLER  since  leaving  college  has  been  a  worker 
/  in  the  oil  fields  of  California ;  was  at  one  time  an  independent 
\  operator  and  is  now  general  manager  of  the  Richfield  Oil 
r  Company. 

)  This  company  was  incorporated  November  29,  1911,  by 

i  the  owners  of  the  Los  Angeles  Oil  Refining  Company  and  the 
%  Kellogg  Oil  Company  as  a  small  concern  to  handle  the  oil 
production  of  the  Santa  Fe  Railway.  At  the  close  of  1913  there 
was  a  general  consolidation  of  the  Los  Angeles  Oil  Refining  Company  and  the 
Kellogg  Oil  Company  and  their  affiliated  interests  into  a  corporation  known  as 
the  Richfield  Oil  Company.  This  corporation  has  enjoyed  a  remarkable  growth. 
The  first  plant  was  located  at  Richfield,  California,  and  later  a  large  industry 
was  established  at  Orlando.  The  executive  officers  of  the  company  are :  F.  R. 
Kellogg,  president;  C.  W.  Winter,  vice-president;  G.  J.  Syminton,  secretary; 
J.  R.  Jacobs,  treasurer,  and  Clarence  M.  Fuller,  general  manager. 

Mr.  Fuller  is  a  native  of  Lawrence,  Kansas,  son  of  Edgar  R.  and  Julia 
(Buckingham)  Fuller.  His  father  was  a  Congregational  clergyman  and  the 
family  lived  in  several  different  localities  during  the  boyhood  of  Clarence  M. 
He  attended  public  schools  and  in  1898  came  with  the  family  to  Bakersfield, 
California,  where  he  graduated  from  the  high  school  in  1903.  For  another 
year  he  attended  Pomona  College  at  Pomona,  California,  and  also  spent  two 
years  in  Hiram  College  and  the  Oberlin  Conservatory  of  Music  at  Oberlin,  Ohio. 

On  returning  to  California  Mr.  Fuller  went  to  work  at  Bakersfield  with  the 
firm  of  Barlow  &  Hill,  oil  producers.  He  did  their  general  office  work  until 
1909,  when  he  formed  a  partnership  with  Herbert  Taylor  under  the  name 
Taylor  &  Fuller,  oil  producers.  They  dissolved  partnership  two  years  later, 
and  Mr.  Fuller  then  came  to  Los  Angeles  and  became  salesman  for  the  National 
Petroleum  Company.  He  was  later  promoted  to  manager  of  the  Road  Oil 
and  Asphalt  Department,  subsequently  became  assistant  general  manager  and 
then  assistant  to  the  president,  and  from  that  work  entered  upon  his  present 
duties  in  1915. 

Mr.  Fuller  is  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club,  is  a  republican 
and  a  member  of  the  Congregational  Church.  June  17,  1907,  at  Bakersfield, 
he  married  Miss  Hazel  Graney,  daughter  of  W.  S.  Graney,  division  superintend- 
ent of  the  Santa  Fe  Railroad.  They  have  one  child,  Winston,  who  was  born  in 
1911  and  is  now  a  student  in  the  public  schools. 


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ARTIN  HENRY  MOSIER  grew  up  in  Western  Pennsylvania, 
was  a  small  boy  when  the  first  crude  petroleum  was  discovered 
in  the  Drake  well,  and  in  1876  he  began  operating  as  an  oil 
producer.  Since  that  time  both  in  oil  and  natural  gas  he 
has  been  one  of  the  prominent  figures  not  only  in  Pennsylvania, 
but  in  the  mid-continent  fields,  and  now  in  the  Pacific  Coast 
district.  Mr.  Mosier  still  has  extensive  interests  in  oil  scat- 
tered from  Ohio  to  the  Pacific  Coast,  but  for  the  last  ten 
years  he  has  made  his  home  in  Los  Angeles. 

He  was  born  near  Pittsburgh,  June  21,  1856,  a  son  of  Daniel  and  Ann  E. 
(Stewart)  Mosier.  His  parents  were  life-long  residents  of  Pennsylvania.  His 
Grandfather  spelled  his  name  .Moser  and  came  from  the  border  of  Alsace- 
Lorraine  to  America.  The  Mosiers  originated  in  Alsace-Lorraine,  and  of  those 
that  came  to  America  some  came  through  Germany  and  others  through  England. 
Originally  the  name  "Mosier"  meant  "The  Lord  of  the  Moss,"  in  keeping 
with  the  custom  of  the  times.  This  branch  of  the  family  in  America  were  the 
original  owners  of  the  large  tracts  of  land  in  the  anthracite  coal  district  of 
Pennsylvania,  before  the  value  of  anthracite  was  known.  The  Reading  Coal 
and  Iron  Company  own  it  now. 

Mr.  Mosier 's  father  was  a  farmer  and  he  died  about  twenty -five  years  ago 
on  the  farm  secured  from  the  Holland  Land  Company  by  Henry  Moser,  the 
grandfather,  in  1832.  Martin  Henry  was  only  two  years  of  age  when  his 
mother  died.  He  was  her  only  child.  By  his  father's  second  marriage  he  has 
three  brothers  and  a  sister. 

Mr.  Mosier  was  educated  in  the  Glade  Run  Academy  near  Pittsburgh,  and 
began  teaching  school  when  sixteen  years  old.  During  the  four  succeeding 
winters  he  taught  school  and  returned  to  the  farm  for  the  summer.  In  1876 
he  went  into  the  oil  country,  and  has  been  an  oil  producer  since  that  time. 
In  1880  he  did  some  of  the  first  work  in  bringing  into  use  the  then  wasting 
natural  gas  of  Pennsylvania,  and  in  the  East  he  became  known  as  an  expert 
in  natural  gas  production,  transportation,  distribution  and  the  necessary 
appliances. 

In  1881,  as  superintendent  of  the  Bradford  Gas,  Light  and  Heating  Com^ 
pany,  he  built  the  first  natural  gas  pumping  station  in  the  world  near  Bradford, 
Pennsylvania.  That  was  before  Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania,  utilized  natural  gas, 
and  the  success  of  this  enterprise  made  it  possible  for  all  of  the  large  cities 
surrounding  the  oil  fields  to  secure  natural  gas  for  fuel  and  lighting  purposes 
in  winter  as  well  as  summer.  Later  he  assisted  in  developing  the  use  of  natural 
gas  in  Indianapolis,  Indiana,  Chicago,  Illinois,  and  for  the  Carnegie  Natural 
Gas  Company  in  Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania,  who  furnished  the  Carnegie  Steel 
Company  with  their  natural  gas  requirements. 

On  August  8,  1883,  Mr.  Mosier  married  Miss  Maud  Isabel  Adams,  of 
Franklin,  Pennsylvania,  where  she  was  born  and  educated.  Her  father  was 
the  late  William  Adams,  and  his  only  son,  William  B.  Adams,  still  owns  the 
old  farm  where  Mrs.  Mosier  was  born,  and  this  farm  since  1860  has  been  a 
scene  of  active  oil  operations.    Mrs.  Mosier  traces  her  family  tree  back  to 

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MARTIN  HENRY  HOSIER 


John  Quincy  and  John  and  Samuel  Adams  of  Revolutionary  times  and  farther 
back  to  William  Adams  of  England,  prominent  there  in  his  time. 

Mr.  Mosier  was  one  of  the  pioneer  operators  of  the  great  Mid-Continent 
oil  field.  He  went  to  Tulsa,  Oklahoma,  in  1905,  when  the  little  box  car  at  the 
railway  station  served  about  all  there  was  to  eat.  At  that  time  all  the  banks 
of  Tulsa  did  not  have  two  hundred  thousand  dollars  in  deposits  whereas  now 
the  resources  of  the  banks  in  that  progressive  city  aggregate  more  than  sixty 
million.  In  the  early  days  he  was  a  prominent  factor  in  every  enterprise  of 
Tulsa  as  a  city  and  industrial  center.  He  served  as  president  of  the  Chamber 
of  Commerce  of  Tulsa  in  1909,  and  in  1910  an  honorary  position  of  Grand 
Chairmanship  of  the  Chairman  of  the  Twenty-one  Public  Improvement  Com- 
mittees was  voted  him  by  the  directors  and  members  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Mr.  Mosier  first  visited  California  in  1909,  and  in  finding  California  climate 
and  business  opportunities  to  his  likng,  he  made  appropriate  arrangements  for 
the  conduct  of  his  business  in  the  East  and  located  here  permanently  in  July, 
1910.  Since  then  he  has  organized  three  close  corporations  and  has  served 
as  director  and  president  of  all  of  them  since  their  incorporation.  He  is 
president  of  the  Petroleum  Company,  a  California  corporation,  with  a  paid  up 
capital  of  two  hundred  fifty  thousand  dollars,  whose  home  is  in  the  Consoli- 
dated Realty  Building  of  Los  Angeles,  California.  He  is  also  president  of  the 
Carpathia  Petroleum  Company  of  Oklahoma,  whose  home  is  in  Tulsa,  Oklahoma. 
Perhaps  his  chief  interest  now  is  in  the  Sunshine  Company,  a  big  Los  Angeles 
enterprise  with  a  capital  stock  of  one  million  two  hundred  fifty  thousand  dollars, 
engaged  not  only  in  the  production  of  citrus  fruits  and  general  farming  but 
also  is  interested  in  petroleum.  This  company  owns  the  celebrated  Sunshine 
Ranch  of  forty-two  hundred  acres,  located  at  the  foothills  on  the  north  side 
of  San  Fernando  Valley.  In  the  citrus  groves,  in  the  fields  of  grain  and 
alfalfa,  with  the  cattle,  dairy,  hogs  and  poultry  on  this  ranch  Mr.  Mosier  spends 
much  of  his  time,  finding  the  business  both  a  recreation  as  well  as  a  source 
of  profit.   Individually  he  still  conducts  oil  operations  in  Ohio  and  Oklahoma. 

His  family  home  is  at  55  Fremont  Place,  between  the  Los  Angeles  High 
School  and  Wilshire  Boulevard,  and  is  considered  one  of  the  beautiful  resi- 
dences in  the  fashionable  Wilshire  district. 

Mr.  Mosier  is  a  member  of  the  Mid-Continental  Oil  &  Gas  Association,  a 
member  of  the  American  Petroleum  Institute,  a  member  of  the  Automobile 
Club  of  Southern  California,  a  life  member  of  the  Press  Club  of  Los  Angeles, 
a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Country  Club,  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles 
Chamber  of  Commerce,  and  is  a  director  and  president  of  the  newly  organized 
Los  Angeles  High  School  Community  Center,  which  organization  has  on  its 
membership  list  nearly  all  of  the  people  residing  in  the  west  end  of  the  city, 
who  individually  and  collectively  have  pledged  themselves  to  make  of  that 
part  of  the  city  the  best  location  for  homes  for  good  American  citizens  whether 
they  are  old  or  young. 

Mrs.  Mosier  is  a  member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  and  is  fre- 
quently on  committees  whose  business  it  is  to  take  care  of  the  deserving  poor. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Mosier  did  their  first  house-keeping  at  Gaston,  Pennsylvania,  the 
first  natural  gas  town  in  the  world.  Their  first  child  was  born  there  and 
they  named  him  Earl  Gaston  Mosier.  They  have  two  sons  living,  Earl  Gaston 
and  Harold  Adams,  and  one  daughter,  Laura  Ethel,  married  to  Edward  L. 
Moorehead  of  Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Moorehead  have  a 
daughter,  five  years  old,  they  call  Maud  Isabel,  for  her  grandmother. 

Another  son,  Martin  Henry,  Jr.,  was  born  in  Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania,  in 
1900,  graduated  as  president  of  his  class  of  the  Los  Angeles  High  School  in 
1919  and  entered  Cornell  University,  without  examination,  for  the  1919-20 
term.  He  was  injured  on  November  21,  1919,  and  died  Good-Friday  morning, 
April  2,  1920,  at  the  family  home,  Los  Angeles,  California. 


ft.  J. &Wt? 


HILE  there  is  a  generous  and  widespread  appreciation  of  the 
magnificent  results  achieved  in  developing  many  of  the  beau- 
tiful districts  around  Los  Angeles,  it  is  not  generally  under- 
stood how  much  of  the  credit  is  due  the  guiding  genius  and 
inspiration  of  a  few  far-sighted  and  public  spirited  individuals. 
Some  of  the  best  examples  of  this  development,  notably  at 
Hollywood,  have  not  proceeded  from  the  haphazard  and  un- 
directed enterprise  of  a  community  and  its  inhabitants,  but 
from  a  powerful  concentration  of  effort  originating  largely  in  a  single  man  or 
organization. 

Those  intimately  informed  as  to  the  history  of  progress  and  development 
in  the  wonderful  section  of  Los  Angeles  north  of  the  city  proper,  including 
Hollywood  and  the  San  Fernando  Valley,  are  aware  that  the  results  achieved 
are  due  largely  to  the  silent  workings,  plans  and  energies  of  H.  J.  Whitley. 
Mr.  Whitley  exemplifies  in  an  eminent  degree  that  broadly  constructive  spirit 
and  genius  for  development  which  makes  communities  and  cities.  Mr.  Whitley 's 
forte  has  not  only  consisted  in  town  development,  the  usual  scope  of  his  enter- 
prise having  extended  over  a  much  greater  area  than  that  prescribed  in  any 
single  town  site. 

Mr.  Whitley  was  born  at  Toronto,  Canada,  October  7,  1859.  He  is  a 
descendant  on  his  paternal  side  of  a  prominent  English  family  and  on  his 
maternal  side  from  a  well  known  Scotch  family.  Most  of  his  early  boyhood 
was  spent  at  Flint,  Michigan,  where  he  received  his  early  education,  and  he 
attended  the  Toronto  Commercial  College. 

Long  before  he  came  to  Los  Angeles  his  development  work  had  expanded 
to  a  large  scale  in  the  middle  west,  northwest  and  southwest.  For  a  number 
of  years  his  headquarters  were  in  Kansas  City  and  Minneapolis,  where  he 
became  interested  in  banking  and  large  land  developments.  While  the  Northern 
Pacific  Railway  was  building  through  to  the  coast  he  became  associated  with 
some  of  its  leading  officials,  managing  and  developing  large  acreage  of  lands 
and  towns  along  the  line  and  was  also  an  officer  and  organizer  of  a  chain 
of  banks  on  the  route  of  the  Northern  Pacific.  During  that  period  of  his 
career  he  organized  and  managed  the  H.  J.  Whitley  Land  Mortgage  Company, 
which  is  still  his  principal  business  and  which  for  many  years  has  performed 
a  large  and  extensive  service  in  the  middle  states. 

Mr.  Whitley  was  one  of  the  first  capitalists  and  men  of  enterprise  on  the 
ground  at  the  opening  of  the  original  Oklahoma  Territory.  He  was  in  Guthrie 
the  day  of  the  opening,  and  soon  afterward  built  and  owned  the  first  brick  block 
in  the  territory,  housing  the  Guthrie  National  Bank.  He  built  numerous  brick 
and  stone  business  blocks  in  that  city,  also  in  Oklahoma  City,  El  Reno,  Chickasha, 
Enid,  Medford  and  in  numerous  other  towns  on  the  Rock  Island  Railroad. 

He  organized  and  was  leading  officer  in  a  number  of  banks  and  was 
appointed  trustee  and  treasurer  of  various  Indian  allotments  in  Oklahoma,  and 
managed  these  lands  both  for  the  Indians  and  the  Rock  Island  Railroad  Com- 
pany. He  had  a  large  interest  in  and  entire  charge  of  the  development  work 
along  the  Rock  Island  road  from  Kansas  to  Fort  Worth,  Texas.    Mr.  Whitley 

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in  that  capacity  platted  a  number  of  towns,  including  the  now  important  cities 
of  Chickasha,  Medford,  Enid,  El  Reno  and  about  twenty  others.  Before  the 
organization  of  the  territory  of  Oklahoma  he  was  sent  as  a  non-official  rep- 
resentative by  both  republicans  and  democrats  to  assist  at  Washington  in  the 
framing  of  the  first  laws  of  the  territory.  It  was  due  entirely  to  his  influence 
and  efforts  that  the  first  territorial  capital  was  located  at  Guthrie.  His  first 
large  school  development  work  was  in  Oklahoma  and  included  the  building  of 
the  State  Normal  School  and  the  chairmanship  of  the  Board  of  Trustees. 

His  heavy  responsibilities  and  the  continuous  strain  of  business  effort 
brought  about  a  breakdown  in  health,  and  on  the  advice  of  his  physicians  Mr. 
Whitley  came  to  California  in  1893.  He  was  soon  afterward  employing  his 
talents  and  means  in  local  constructive  enterprises,  although  his  interests  else- 
where have  always  continued  large.  His  greatest  task  and  the  scene  of  his 
best  work  has  been  in  the  district  of  Hollywood  and  the  contiguous  territory 
of  the  San  Fernando  Valley.  From  an  open  country  he  developed  the  modern 
Hollywood,  having  as  his  associates  some  of  the  most  prominent  business  men 
of  Los  Angeles.  Individually,  however,  he  owned  the  principal  interests  and 
had  the  chief  burdens  of  management.  He  was  the  first  to  conceive  the  idea 
of  making  Hollywood  a  suburb  of  Los  Angeles.  Largely  through  his  efforts 
water  was  distributed  throughout  the  Hollywood  hills.  He  donated  five  tracts 
of  lands,  two  reservoir  sites  and  other  grounds  which  today  are  valued  by  the 
water  company  at  nearly  two  hundred  and  fifty  thousand  dollars.  He  also  gave 
nearly  the  entire  site  for  the  Hollywood  Hotel  and  the  First  National  Bank 
property  and  organized  the  bank.  He  was  a  large  stockholder  in  these  and 
other  institutions  which  developed  Hollywood.  He  put  in  the  first  electric 
light  and  telephone  systems.  It  was  his  influence  that  attracted  the  assistance 
of  E.  P.  Clark  and  Gen.  M.  H.  Sherman  in  their  building  the  electric  line 
through  Hollywood.  The  splendid  boulevards,  Sunset  and  Hollywood,  were 
conceived  in  his  original  plan  for  the  development  of  Hollywood.  Up  to  that 
time  suburban  development  around  Los  Angeles  had  encountered  baffling  ob- 
stacles, and  it  was  the  sheer  will,  force  and  able  management  of  Mr.  Whitley 
that  brought  about  the  first  real  suburban  success. 

With  present  results  and  the  possibilities  of  the  future  in  mind,  doubtless 
the  greatest  achievement  of  Mr.  Whitley  in  Southern  California  has  been  the 
transformation  of  the  San  Fernando  Valley  from  an  immense  grain  field  to 
a  high  class  suburban  property.  It  was  about  1900  that  he  conceived  the  idea 
of  developing  the  valley  empire  and  adding  it  to  the  growing  suburbs  of  Los 
Angeles.  Finally,  in  September,  1909,  he  and  his  four  associates  completed 
the  negotiation  for  the  purchase  of  forty-seven  thousand  acres  for  the  sum 
of  two  million  five  hundred  thousand  dollars  and  spending  about  three  millions 
for.  development  work.  The  men  actively  associated  with  Mr.  Whitley  were 
General  H.  G.  Otis,  O.  F.  Brant  and  General  M.  H.  Sherman  and  Harry 
Chandler,  each  having  a  fifth  interest.  All  were  attracted  to  the  project  as 
much  by  the  benefits  it  would  bring  to  the  city  as  by  prospective  profits.  Later 
they  divided  their  interests  with  their  associates,  employes  and  others  whom 
they  wished  to  benefit.  In  all  the  Whitley  enterprises  there  has  been  no  pro- 
moter's stock  or  scret  profits  or  commissions  to  him.  Mr.  Whitley  accepted  the 
management  of  the  project  and  planned,  executed  and  managed  the  entire 
business  from  both  a  financial  and  development  standpoint,  having  at  all  times 
the  able  and  hearty  co-operation  of  his  fellow  members  on  the  board.  He 
planned  and  caused  to  be  built  a  double  asphalt  boulevard  sixteen  miles  long, 
lined  with  roses  and  rare  shrubbery,  which  was  named  "Sherman  Way"  in 
honor  of  his  friend  General  M.  H.  Sherman.  He  also  established  towns  and 
caused  the  erection  of  school  buildings  and  churches,  in  line  with  his  previous 
enterprise  at  Hollywood,  where  he  had  been  instrumental  in  erecting  three 
fine  school  buildings,  adding  five  more  in  San  Fernando  Valley.    Perhaps  even 


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more  important,  from  the  standpoint  of  affording  a  livelihood  to  the  inhabitants 
of  the  valley,  was  the  introduction  of  orchards,  bean  and  sugar  beet  raising, 
banks,  poultry  industry,  alfalfa  ranches,  stock,  vegetables  and  several  manu- 
facturing institutions.  Mr.  Whitley  and  his  associates  recognized  and  acted 
upon  the  fundamental  principle  in  the  handling  of  such  projects,  that  a  vast 
amount  of  capital  must  be  expended  upon  improvement  and  development  and 
that  the  benefits  must  in  a  large  degree  be  shared  with  the  individual  purchasers 
and  the  realization  of  profits  be  deferred  through  a  long  period  of  years  even 
through  the  most  stringent  financial  times.  Actual  settlers  have  never  been 
pressed  for  payments.  The  outstanding  fact  is  that  today  approximately  a 
hundred  twenty  thousand  acres  in  the  San  Fernando  Valley  have  been  annexed 
to  Los  Angeles  and  are  an  enormous  asset  in  wealth  and  power  to  the  larger  city. 
Mr.  Whitley  regards  his  work  in  the  San  Fernando  Valley  as  the  culmination 
of  a  lifetime  replete  with  success.  The  keynote  of  his  operations  has  always 
been  development — the  building  of  fine  boulevards,  schools,  churches,  railways 
and  houses,  and  the  establishment  of  banks  and  industries  to  give  a  livelihood 
to  settlers. 

Another  earlier  enterprise  was  the  purchase  with  associates  of  nearly  forty 
thousand  acres  in  Kings  and  Tulare  counties  and  the  establishment  of  the  town 
of  Corcoran,  the  financing  of  which  enterprise  fell  largely  on  Mr.  Whitley 
personally  and  largely  through  him  the  district  has  developed  into  one  of  the 
finest  and  largest  dairy  sections  in  California. 

It  is  appropriate  to  speak  of  Mr.  Whitley  as  the  father  of  Hollywood 
and  many  other  places  which  exemplify  his  modern  methods  and  capable  man- 
agement and  are  among  the  best  town  and  suburban  communities  in  the 
United  States. 

It  should  also  be  noted  that  a  few  years  ago,  in  order  to  close  up  affairs, 
Mr.  Whitley  took  over  the  balance  of  unsold  lands  and  assets  of  the  Suburban 
Homes  Company,  taking  over  a  large  amount  of  land  and  other  assets,  supplying 
the  capital  and  making  it  possible  to  wind  up  the  affairs  of  the  company.  This 
was  another  of  his  generous  acts,  in  line  with  his  desire  to  insure  that  his 
policy  of  giving  the  land  buyer  who  improves  his  holding  proper  accommodation 
and  support  should  be  continued. 

In  1887  Mr.  Whitley  married  Miss  Margaret  Virginia  Ross,  daughter  of 
William  M.  Ross.  Mrs.  Whitley  is  a  member  of  one  of  the  oldest  and  best 
known  families  of  Philadelphia.  She  has  greatly  aided  her  husband  in  the 
upbuilding  of  churches,  schools  and  worthy  social  development  work. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Whitley  have  two  children,  a  son  and  a  daughter.  The 
daughter,  Grace  Virginia,  was  married  in  1915  and  has  two  beautiful  children. 
The  son,  Ross  Emmett  Whitley,  is  well  known  in  Los  Angeles  business  and 
banking  circles,  and  his  training  and  character  well  fit  him  to  carry  on  the 
extensive  enterprises  of  his  father. 


Jfreb  Kellogg 


RED  R.  KELLOGG  has  been  closely  associated  with  some  of 
the  large  and  important  oil  developments  in  Southern  Cali- 
fornia during  the  past  eighteen  years.  A  lawyer  by  training, 
he  has  used  his  knowledge  only  as  a  supplement  to  his  very 
practical  business  career. 

Mr.  Kellogg  is  a  native  of  Iowa,  a  son  of  H.  C.  and 
Elizabeth.  Kellogg.  His  father  was  one  of  the  most  prominent 
and  successful  attorneys  in  Iowa.  Fred  R.  Kellogg  was  edu- 
cated in  common  and  high  schools  in  that  state,  and  for  two  years  read  law  at 
Sioux  City.  Abandoning  his  intention  of  practicing  law,  he  took  up  farming 
in  his  native  state,  and  was  one  of  the  progressive  agriculturists  of  that  great 
commonwealth  until  he  came  to  Los  Angeles  in  1902. 

Since  coming  to  this  state  his  activities  have  been  largely  in  the  oil  and 
refining  business.  In  1906  he  incorporated  the  Kellogg  Oil  Company,  with 
himself  as  president  and  G.  J.  Syminton  as  secretary  and  treasurer.  This 
company  marketed  both  crude  and  distilled  oils.  Its  facilities  were  greatly 
enlarged  when  they  took  over  the  Topping  Oil  Plant  of  the  Santa  Fe  Railroad 
at  Taft,  California.  In  1911  they  consolidated  with  the  Los  Angeles  Oil  and 
Refining  Company,  thus  acquiring  a  complete  refinery  at  Los  Angeles.  The 
new  name  of  the  corporation  at  this  time  became  the  Richfield  Oil  Company, 
of  which  company  Mr.  Kellogg  is  now  the  president. 

In  1915  this  company  bought  the  Phoenix  Refining  Company  at  Bakers- 
field,  California.  At  the  present  time  a  further  extension  to  their  facilities  of 
a  gasoline  refining  plant  at  Bakersfield  has  been  finished  and  is  in  operation. 
The  company  employs  altogether  about  one  hundred  and  twenty-five  people. 
Mr.  Kellogg  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  California  Independent  Oil  Asso- 
ciation and  was  active  in  the  various  war  departments,  he  is  the  vice-president 
of  the  El  Segunda  Bank  of  El  Segunda,  California,  a  president  of  the  Buttonlath 
Manufacturing  Company  and  a  director  in  several  large  business  enterprises  in 
Los  Angeles.  He  is  a  Scottish  Rite  Mason,  a  member  of  the  Independent  Order 
of  Odd  Fellows,  and  a  member  of  the  California  Club  of  Los  Angeles.  He  is  a 
republican  and  in  religion  a  Congregationalist. 

Mr.  Kellogg  was  married  at  Cherokee,  Iowa,  in  1895,  to  Miss  Leota  Smith, 
daughter  of  Major  Robert  M.  Smith,  of  the  78th  Pennsylvania  Infantry  during 
the  Civil  war,  and  a  member  of  the  Loyal  Legion.  Four  children  have  been 
born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Kellogg,  of  whom  three  are  living :  Margaret,  who  was 
active  in  Red  Cross  canteen  work,  is  a  graduate  of  the  Marlborough  School ; 
H.  Chandler,  a  student  at  Corvallis,  Oregon,  and  Marion,  attending  school  at 
Marlborough. 


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BSPITE  the  weird  limitations  of  fame,  so  that  no  single  celebrity 
in  history  is  known  to  all  the  people  all  the  time,  it  is  safe 
to  say  that  the  name  Barney  Oldfield  is  and  has  been  for 
years  inevitably  linked  with  the  word  automobile,  constituting 
a  degree  of  fame  upon  which  even  the  vaulting  ambition  of  a 
Caesar  could  hardly  aspire. 

As  a  driver  and  pilot  in  speed  racing  Barney  Oldfield 
has  been  before  the  public  for  over  twenty  years.  His  life 
covers  something  more  than  forty  years,  and  it  is  appropriate  to  note  some  of  the 
early  milestones  in  his  career. 

He  was  born  on  a  farm  three  mile  from  Wauseon,  Ohio,  January  29,  1878, 
and  just  eleven  years  later  the  family  moved  to  Toledo,  where  during  1890-91 
he  sold  newspapers  on  the  streets.  During  1892  he  worked  as  waterboy  with  a 
railroad  section  gang,  and  from  his  savings  of  sixty-five  dollars  bought  his  first 
"Advance"  bicycle.  During  the  next  year  he  was  employed  as  bell  boy  in  the 
Boody  House,  and  was  diligently  practicing  on  his  "whele"  and  on  Decoration 
Day  of  1894  won  second  place  in  an  eighteen  mile  road  race.  During  1895 
he  was  appearing  in  a  number  of  events  as  a  bicycle  racer,  otherwise  doing 
duty  as  an  elevator  boy.  In  that  year  he  won  two  medals  and  a  gold  watch 
in  Ohio  state  championships  at  Canton,  and  soon  afterward  began  selling  bicycles. 
By  1896  he  was  recognized  as  the  bicycle  race  champion  of  Ohio,  and  then 
turned  professional,  and  covered  Ohio  and  Michigan  as  traveling  sales  repre- 
sentative of  bicycle  manufacturers.  The  two  years  following  he  campaigned 
as  a  racing  man  in  seasons,  and  during  the  winter  was  employed  as  salesman 
and  factory  worker. 

It  was  in  1899  that  Barney  Oldfield  had  his  first  experience  with  a  machine 
driven  by  motor  power.  This  was  a  gasoline  motorcycle,  and  as  a  pilot  he  was 
soon  ranked  as  an  expert.  During  1900,  1901  and  1902  he  was  a  participant  in 
nearly  all  the  national  events  as  a  rider  of  bicycles  and  motorcycles. 

Probably  the  most  significant  event  in  his  entire  career  came  in  1902, 
when  he  became  associated  with  Tom  Cooper,  a  former  national  bicycle  champion, 
with  Henry  Ford,  an  obscure  engineer,  Oldfield  being  the  mechanic  and  later 
driver  of  two  racing  automobiles  built  from  Ford's  designs  and  financed  by 
Cooper's  money.  Oldfield  was  a  driver  in  a  historic  race,  over  a  five  mile  course, 
with  the  Ford  "999."  The  place  and  date  was  September  21,  1902,  on  the 
Groose  Pointe  track  at  Detroit,  and  the  time  5  :20  set  a  world  record.  The  next 
year,  1903,  Barney  Oldfield  drove  the  "999"  at  Indianapolis  in  0:59  3-5,  the 
first  time  the  minute  mark  was  ever  broken  on  a  one  mile  circular  course. 

Since  then  on  virtually  every  race  course  in  the  country  Barney  Oldfield 
has  broken  records  and  thrilled  throngs,  and  with  seventeen  years  of  race 
driving  to  his  credit  he  well  deserves  the  title  of  "master  driver,"  being  the 
dean  of  all  racers.  As  one  critic  has  written:  "He  has  seen  three  generations 
of  drivers  come  out,  race  and  either  retire  or  come  to  grief  by  the  accident 
of  the  terribly  dangerous  sport.  Barney  Oldfield  was  more  than  a  daredevil. 
He  was  a  thinker — a  student." 

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He  has  cut  record  after  record,  including  the  world's  non-stop  race  record  of 
three  hundred  one  miles  at  Corono,  California,  with  an  average  of  86V2  miles 
an  hour.  In  1917  he  set  a  record,  still  unbroken,  on  a  mile  track  at  St.  Louis, 
and  with  a  series  of  distances  ranging  from  one  to  fifty  miles. 

Barney  Oldfield  recently  retired  from  racing.  He  has  always  been  a  suc- 
cessful business  man  and  was  financially  independent  long  before  he  retired 
from  racing.  In  1919  he  became  president  of  the  Oldfield  Tire  Company  at 
Cleveland.  The  history  of  automobile  racing  proves  that  the  great  majority  of 
accidents  have  been  due  not  to  faulty  mechanism,  but  to  tire  troubles,  and  for 
years  Barney  Oldfield  has  been  a  student  of  the  tire  problem  and  in  order  to 
get  his  exacting  specifications  and  experience  translated  into  concrete  results, 
he  is  now  head  of  a  tire  company  making  a  tire  according  to  his  personal  stand- 
ards, under  his  personal  supervision  and  bearing  his  name  as  a  personal 
guarantee. 

The  unusual  progress  of  The  Oldfield  Tire  Company  has  been  one  of  the 
miracles  of  the  tire  industry.  The  company  has  been  in  actual  operation  a 
little  more  than  a  year,  and  in  this  short  time  has  passed  more  than  eighty-five 
per  cent  of  its  competitors  in  volume  of  business.  To  cap  the  climax,  on  May 
31,  1920,  Oldfield  Tires  equipped  the  cars  finishing  1,  2,  3,  6  and  8  in  the 
Indianapolis  500-miles  speedway  race.  The  winner  of  the  race  finished  without 
a  single  tire  change — the  first  time  in  history  that  any  tire  has  been  able  to 
accomplish  this  wonderful  feat.  Mr.  Oldfield  considers  this  victory  of  his  tire 
as  even  more  significant  than  any  of  the  record-breaking  performances  in  which 
he  participated  as  a  driver. 

While  he  spends  a  great  deal  of  time  in  Cleveland,  he  has  made  his  residence 
in  Los  Angeles  for  ten  years.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Elks,  and  politically  a  re- 
publican. He  married  in  Chicago,  Illinois,  in  November,  1904,  Bessy  Gooby,  a 
native  of  Alameda,  California.    They  have  no  children. 


^HOMAS  J.  FLEMING,  general  manager  of  the  California  Port- 

ClO   ^anc*  Cement  Company  and  former  county  treasurer  of  Los 

a  A  r  I  1  A  A  Angeles  County,  has  been  a  resident  of  Southern  California 
vy  V/    over  thirty  years.    His  business  activities  have  been  of  a  con- 

r  I .  X  C  n  structive  character,  and  the  success  he  has  achieved  in  business 
hwt "*SC5?~>§iw  nas  enaD^e(^  him  to  follow  out  constructive  ideas  in  developing 
£^i£cfc'3^jW&    a  wonderful  country  place  in  the  San  Jacinto  mountains. 

Mr.  Fleming  was  born  December  18,  1860,  at  Ithaca,  New 
York,  in  the  same  house  in  which  his  father  was  born.  His  family  is  of  old 
and  honored  American  stock,  and  through  his  ancestors  Mr.  Fleming  holds 
membership  in  the  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution.  His  great-great-grand- 
father came  to  the  United  States  from  England  in  1700  and  spent  the  rest  of 
his  life  as  a  farmer  and  planter  in  Virginia.  His  great-grandfather,  William, 
left  Virginia  early  in  life,  settling  near  Auburn,  New  York,  where  he  developed 
a  place  now  known  as  Fleming  Hill  and  there  engaged  in  farming.  The 
grandfather,  Thomas  Fleming,  a  native  of  Virginia,  spent  his  mature  years  as 
a  farmer  at  Ithaca,  New  York. 

Thomas  J.  Fleming  is  a  son  of  James  and  Jane  (Nelson)  Fleming.  His 
father  was  born  at  Ithaca  in  July,  1827,  and  up  to  the  age  of  twenty-one  his 
environment  was  that  of  a  farm.  At  that  time  his  father  gave  him  some  money 
and  he  crossed  the  plains  to  California,  taking  the  south  trail.  While  en  route 
he  was  attacked  by  a  grizzly  bear,  and  the  injuries  were  such  as  to  keep  him 
from  active  mining,  the  purpose  for  which  he  had  come  to  California.  He 
contrived  another  business,  conducting  a  supply  station  for  teamsters  who  hauled 
supplies  to  the  mines.  This  business  was  located  near  Indian  Gulch,  in  what 
was  then  a  part  of  Fresno,  now  Merced  County,  and  the  original  building  is 
still  standing  there  on  the  bank  of  Bear  Creek.  James  Fleming  went  back  to 
New  York  by  way  of  the  Panama  Canal  in  1856,  and  in  1857  was  married  at 
Ithaca.   The  rest  of  his  life  was  spent  quietly  in  farming  at  Ithaca. 

Thomas  J.  Fleming  spent  his  early  life  in  New  York  State,  attending  gram- 
mar and  high  schools  to  the  age  of  eighteen.  The  next  three  years  he  was 
clerk  with  the  George  Small  Lumber  Company.  He  resigned  on  account  of 
ill  health  and  later  came  to  San  Francisco  and  soon  afterward  to  Los  Angeles. 
His  first  business  connection  in  Los  Angeles  was  as  secretary  for  the  Exchange 
Block  Company.  This  company  built  the  first  three  story  brick  office  buildings 
in  Pasadena.  He  was  with  that  concern  three  years,  and  then  became  chief 
deputy  county  treasurer  under  Colonel  Jabez  Banbury,  and  continued  under 
J.  DeBarth  Shorb,  successor  of  Colonel  Banbury.  Mr.  Fleming  was  deputy 
until  appointed  county  treasurer  to  fill  an  unexpired  term,  and  at  the  next 
regular  election  was  chosen  county  treasurer,  an  office  he  capably  filled  four 
years. 

On  leaving  office  Mr.  Fleming  engaged  in  the  building  material  business, 
organizing  the  Oro  Grande  Lime  and  Cement  Company,  of  which  he  is  still 
president.  Subsequently  he  took  over  the  management  of  the  California  Portland 
Cement  Company,  and  is  now  one  of  the  chief  stockholders,  and  besides  general 

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manager  is  also  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  company.  The  plant  is  located 
at  Colton,  California.  Mr.  Fleming  is  also  a  director  of  the  Western  California 
Land  Company  and  the  Hellman  Commercial  Trust  and  Savings  Bank.  During 
the  war  he  served  as  Director  of  District  No.  14  of  the  War  Service  Committee, 
War  Industries  Board. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  California  Club,  Midwick  Country  Club,  Los  Angeles 
Country  Club,  Automobile  Club  of  Southern  California,  an  Elk  and  a  Mason, 
and  in  politics  a  republican.  He  married  at  Los  Angeles  Ella  Thompson.  Their 
two  children  are  Margaret,  now  Mrs.  Asa  Call,  and  Louise,  Mrs.  Ernest  Duque, 
both  of  Los  Angeles. 

It  has  been  the  good  fortune  of  Southern  California  that  many  wealthy 
men  have  used  their  wealth  in  conjunction  with  good  taste  to  give  increased 
beauty  to  the  natural  charm  of  the  landscape.  The  place  here  selected  by  Mr. 
Fleming  for  his  country  home  is  a  nine  hundred  and  fifty  acre  ranch  in  the 
San  Jacinto  Mountains  of  Riverside  County.  Besides  his  own  land  he  leases 
four  thousand  acres  from  the  United  States  Government.  Much  of  it  is  wild 
and  picturesque,  the  woods  and  mountain  retreats  containing  many  wild  cats, 
gray  fox,  raccoon,  mountain  quail  and  large  gray  tree  squirrels,  besides  deer 
and  mountain  lions.  Mr.  Fleming  is  now  negotiating  with  the  Government  to 
secure  official  recognition  of  this  as  a  <?ame  refuge.  While  Mr.  Fleming  has 
made  some  of  his  property  productive  in  a  commercial  way,  he  regards  the 
chief  assets  of  the  region  the  work  of  nature  itself.  Mr.  Fleming  is  an  ardent 
outdoor  man,  and  a  few  days  or  a  few  weeks  in  the  mountains  completely 
recreates  his  energies  for  business.  In  his  beautiful  mountain  retreat  he  keeps 
a  cook  and  several  Indians  employed  all  the  year  around. 

Just  recently  his  country  home  was  completed.  It  is  known  as  "Tahquitz." 
His  familiarity  with  old  Indian  legends  supplied  him  with  the  name.  The  story 
goes  that  an  old  Indian  chieftain  of  ancient  times  became  an  outlaw,  and 
secluding  himself  in  this  valley  of  the  San  Jacinto  Mountains  made  periodic 
raids  upon  women  and  children.  Finally  he  was  subdued  by  the  chief  of  the 
Saboba  Tribe,  and  his  spirit  has  been  confined  by  chains  in  subsequent  ages. 
Whenever  he  rouses  himself  and  attempts  to  break  the  chains  he  causes  earth- 
quakes. Henceforth  "Tahquitz"  is  destined  to  be  a  name  of  wide  significance 
applied  to  one  of  the  most  unique  country  estates  in  California. 


V.  ANDREWS  was  born  in  Richland  Center,  Richland 
County,  Wisconsin,  on  October  16,  1861.  He  is  the  second 
son  of  Lindley  M.  Andrews  and  Elizabeth  W.  Andrews.  He 
is  of  Yankee  and  Quaker  stock.  He  was  educated  at  the  high 
school  at  Decatur,  Illinois,  from  which  he  graduated  in  1881, 
and  at  the  University  of  Cincinnati,  from  the  Law  School  of 
which  he  graduated  in  1883.  Mr.  Andrews  also  taught  school 
four  terms,  and  values  the  training  thus  gained  as  of  the 
highest  importance.  Between  terms  of  teaching  he  worked  on  a  farm,  and 
acquired  that  intimate  touch  with  common  things  and  that  deep  respect  for 
hard  labor  so  necessary  to  success. 

At  the  age  of  twenty-one,  Mr.  Andrews  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  Ohio, 
and  immediately  began  practice  at  Norwalk,  Ohio,  in  partnership  with  his  older 
brother,  Horace,  under  the  firm  name  of  Andrews  Brothers.  For  eighteen  years 
this  partnership  continued  and  a  large  practice  was  built  up.  In  1902  Horace 
Andrews  removed  to  Cleveland,  where  he  entered  the  firm  of  Hoyt,  Dustin, 
Kelley,  McKeehan  and  Andrews,  and  has  ever  since  been  in  that  organization 
and  one  of  the  leading  lawyers  of  Ohio.  A.  V.  Andrews  continued  in  the 
practice  of  his  profession  at  Norwalk  until  February,  1914,  having  associated 
with  him  W.  R.  Pruner,  making  the  firm  name  of  Andrews  and  Pruner.  A 
large  and  desirable  business,  both  in  the  trial  of  cases  and  in  the  business  side 
of  the  law  was  the  result  of  Mr.  Andrews'  career  at  the  bar  in  Ohio.  He  was 
also  a  valued  and  respected  factor  as  a  citizen.  He  became  identified  with 
several  banks  as  a  director  and  attorney  and  many  other  successful  business 
enterprises  employed  him  as  counsel  and  elected  him  to  their  directorates.  In 
February,  1914,  Mr.  Andrews  was  offered  a  larger  field  of  labor  and  usefulness 
in  Los  Angeles,  and  after  twenty-nine  years  of  successful  practice  in  one  city, 
and  one  office,  he  decided  to  cast  his  lot  with  the  West  and  removed  to  Los 
Angeles,  leaving  a  host  of  warm  friends  in  Northern  Ohio.  With  his  brother, 
Lewis  W.  Andrews,  and  Thomas  O.  Toland,  he  formed  the  law  firm  of  Andrews, 
Toland  and  Andrews,  which  by  the  admission  in  1920  of  Mr.  Paul  M.  Gregg  has 
become  Andrews,  Toland,  Gregg  and  Andrews.  Mr.  Andrews  has  devoted  much 
of  his  time  and  abilities  during  the  past  six  years  to  the  litigations  and  legal 
affairs  of  several  large  and  growing  corporations.  He  is  a  member  of  the  State 
Bar  Association  of  California  and  of  the  Los  Angeles  Bar  Association.  He  has 
for  many  years  belonged  to  the  Masonic  bodies,  including  the  Blue  Lodge,  the 
Knights  Templar  and  the  Scottish  Rite  degrees.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Los 
Angeles  Athletic  Club.  In  religion  he  is  a  Unitarian  and  a  trustee  of  the  First 
Unitarian  Church  of  Los  Angeles.  In  politics  he  is  a  life-long  republican,  but 
in  1912  followed  Roosevelt. 

In  1888  Mr.  Andrews  married  Edna  G.  Hayden,  daughter  of  Hon.  George 
Hayden,  of  Medina,  Ohio.  Of  this  marriage  there  have  been  born  six  children, 
Gertrude  H.,  Marion  L.,  Ruth  S.,  George  L.,  Lewis  M.  and  A.  V.,  Jr.  Since 
July,  1914,  the  family  home  has  been  at  238  South  Andrews  Boulevard,  Los 
Angeles. 


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(g.  Carlos;  &airirf»,iWL2@. 

N  a  little  cottage  nestled  in  an  orange  grove  on  East  Seventh 
Street,  in  the  city  of  Los  Angeles,  the  fifth  child  of  Francisco 
and  Magdalena  W.  de  Sabichi  came,  on  a  wintry  morning 
November  4,  1878.  Amid  these  happy  surroundings  he  spent 
his  youth.  He  received  his  early  training  at  the  primary 
schools  of  Los  Angeles,  which  was  later  enriched  by  two 
degrees  obtained  from  St.  Vincent's  College. 

Early  in  his  youth  the  desire  to  pursue  the  study  of 
medicine  came  to  him,  and  after  leaving  St.  Vincent's  College  he  entered  the 
University  of  California  at  Berkeley.  While  there  he  made  an  enviable  collegiate 
record,  and  also  made  history  as  an  athlete,  being  a  member  of  the  football 
squad  which  was  the  first  to  score  against  Stanford  University,  30-0.  During 
his  college  career  he  became  a  charter  member  of  the  Beta  Xi  of  Kappa  Sigma. 
With  this  excellent  classical  and  scientific  training  he  entered  the  medical 
department  of  the  University  of  Southern  California,  where  the  degree  of 
Doctor  of  Medicine  was  conferred  on  him  in  June,  1904.  His  opportunity  for 
experience  in  the  practice  of  medicine  was  enriched  by  his  service  at  the  Los 
Angeles  County  Hospital  and  at  the  Pacific  Branch  of  the  National  Soldiers' 
Home  through  an  appointment  from  Brigadier-General  La  Grange. 

During  the  year  1906,  we  find  the  young  physician  pursuing  the  study  of 
clinical  medicine  and  surgery  at  Columbia  University  of  New  York.  Returning 
from  New  York  he  took  charge  of  the  medical  department  of  the  Yellow  Aster 
Mining  Company,  where  he  enjoyed  an  enviable  record  in  his  chosen  profession. 

Doctor  Sabichi  saw  great  possibilities  in  the  city  of  Bakersfield,  where  he 
has  witnessed  the  great  agricultural  development  of  the  San  Joaquin  Valley 
and  the  rapid  progress  of  the  petroleum  industry.  The  development  of  these 
natural  resources  afforded  him  unusual  opportunities  to  become  an  investor  in 
numerous  oil  corporations. 

The  past  eleven  years  have  found  the  doctor  practicing  in  Bakersfield, 
where  he  has  won  several  distinctive  appointments — as  president  of  the  San 
Joaquin  Hospital,  consulting  surgeon  of  the  Santa  Fe  Railroad  and  during  the 
European  War  an  appointment  by  Governor  Stevens  as  examiner  on  the 
exemption  boards  No.  1  and  2. 

Aside  from  his  professional  career  he  finds  time  to  devote  to  club  life  and 
outdoor  sports  as  golfing  and  hunting. 


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^enrp  £>mttf)  Carhart 


<||¥HE  world  has  for  many  years  appreciated  the  contributions  of 
the  late  Henry  Smith  Carhart  to  the  science  of  physics  and 
applied  electricity.  His  residence  during  his  later  years  at 
Pasadena  and  the  encouragement  he  gave  to  the  California 
Institute  of  Technology  make  his  life  and  attainments  sub- 
jects of  appropriate  interest  in  this  work. 

Henry  Smith  Carhart  was  born  at  Coeymans,  New  York, 
March  27,  1844,  the  youngest  son  of  Daniel  Sutton  and  Mar- 
garet Martin  Carhart.  He  completed  his  college  course  at  Wesleyan  University, 
Middletown,  Connecticut,  with  highest  honors  in  1869,  and  in  1872  received  the 
Master  of  Arts  degree  from  the  same  university.  He  was  a  student  in  Yale 
during  1871-72,  and  in  Harvard  during  the  summer  of  1876.  The  year  1881-82 
he  devoted  to  research  work  in  the  laboratory  of  the  renowned  Von  Helmholtz 
at  the  University  of  Berlin.  In  1893  Wesleyan  University  conferred  upon  him 
the  degree  of  LL.  D.  in  recognition  of  his  eminence  as  a  physicist  and  as  a 
teacher.  In  1912  the  degree  of  LL.  D.  was  also  conferred  upon  him  by  the 
University  of  Michigan,  and  that  of  Sc.  D.  by  Northwestern  University. 

Two  of  the  great  universities  of  the  middle  west  claimed  his  services  for 
nearly  thirty-five  years.  He  was  professor  of  physics  and  chemistry  at  North- 
western University  from  1872  to  1886,  when  he  was  called  to  the  University 
of  Michigan  as  professor  of  physics.  He  held  that  chair  until  1909,  when  he 
became  emeritus  professor.  In  1910  he  was  made  research  associate  in  physics 
at  the  California  Institute  of  Technology.  The  position  was  a  purely  friendly 
and  honorary  relation,  involving  neither  professional  services  nor  salary,  yet 
his  personal  prestige  and  his  kindly  interest  proved  a  quickening  power  in 
every  department  of  the  school's  technical  activities.  During  his  residence  in 
Pasadena  he  was  also  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  Occidental  College, 
in  which  he  was  deeply  interested.  He  was  prominent  in  the  Presbyterian 
Church  in  Pasadena  and  in  the  Twilight  Club.  On  June  8,  1910,  he  delivered 
the  dedication  address  for  Pasadena  Hall,  now  known  as  Throop  Hall,  his  sub- 
ject being  "The  Twentieth  Century  Engineer." 

Dr.  Carhart  first  became  known  to  the  scientific  world  in  1881  for  his 
experimental  work  on  voltaic  cells,  a  subject  on  which  in  later  years  he  was  a 
world  authority.  In  must  have  been  gratifying  to  Von  Helmholtz  to  have  his 
former  pupil  chosen  as  his  colleague  by  the  International  Electrical  Congress  in 
1893  on  a  commission  of  three  to  formulate  the  details  of  the  standard  Clark 
cell.  At  that  time  Dr.  Carhart  was  the  recognized  authority  on  the  subject  on 
either  side  of  the  Atlantic. 

While  at  Northwestern  Dr.  Carhart  supervised  the  construction  of  a  lab- 
oratory for  physical  science,  and  his  first  labor  at  Ann  Arbor  was  to  build  a 
physical  laboratory  according  to  his  own  detailed  plans.  It  is  significant  of 
the  comparative  youth  of  modern  applied  electricity  that  in  1889  the  Board 
of  Regents  of  the  University  of  Michigan  authorized  him  to  introduce  a  course 
in  electrical  engineering,  a  department  which  received  its  original  impetus 
from  Dr.  Carhart,  and  in  which  have  been  educated  many  of  the  prominent 

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men  in  that  profession.  Dr.  Carhart  frequently  was  employed  as  an  expert 
in  suits  involving  the  validity  of  patents  on  electrical  devices. 

A  summary  of  his  attainments  in  the  scientific  world,  and  a  tribute  by  a 
distinguished  fellow  scientist  has  been  written  by  Dr.  George  E.  Hale,  director 
of  the  Mount  Wilson  Solar  Observatory.    Dr.  Hale  said : 

"The  death  of  Dr.  Carhart,  which  comes  as  such  a  shock  to  his  friends, 
will  be  widely  felt  throughout  the  scientific  world.  He  was  one  of  the  pioneers 
of  electro-chemistry  in  the  United  States,  and  his  contributions  in  this  field, 
especially  in  the  development  of  Carhart 's  standard  cell,  gave  him  an  inter-, 
national  reputation  many  years  ago.  The  success  of  the  researches  that  cul- 
minated in  the  production  of  a  constant  and  reliable  source  of  electric  potential 
was  of  fundamental  importance  to  the  advancement  of  physics  and  electrical 
engineering,  as  nearly  all  precise  electrical  measurements  depend  upon  such 
a  source. 

"European  men  of  science  were  quick  to  recognize  his  achievements,  and 
he  was  frequently  called  to  serve  on  international  committees.  Thus  he  was 
a  member  of  the  International  Jury  of  Awards  at  the  Paris  Exposition  of  Elec- 
tricity in  1881,  the  president  of  the  board  of  judges  in  the  department  of 
electricity  at  the  Columbian  Exposition  in  Chicago  in  1893,  a  member  of  the 
Jury  of  Awards  at  the  Buffalo  Exposition  in  1901,  and  one  of  the  delegates 
of  the  United  States  to  the  International  Electrical  Congress  at  Chicago  in 
1893,  and  at  St.  Louis  in  1904.  He  was  also  a  delegate  to  the  conferences  on  elec- 
trical units  and  standards  at  Berlin  in  1905,  and  London  in  1908. 

"At  the  great  centennial  celebration  of  the  birth  of  Charles  Darwin  in 
Cambridge,  England,  in  1909,  he  represented  the  University  of  Michigan,  with 
which  he  was  connected  as  professor  of  physics  and  head  of  this  department 
from  1886  to  1909,  when  he  retired  as  professor  emeritus.  Professor  Carhart 
was  one  of  the  small  group  of  leading  American  men  of  science  who  attended 
the  South  African  meeting  of  the  British  Association  for  the  Advancement  of 
Science  in  1905  as  guests  of  the  association.  Further  evidence  of  the  wide- 
spread appreciation  of  his  work  is  afforded  by  his  election  to  membership  in  the 
London  Institution  of  Electrical  Engineers  and  other  societies,  and  by  the 
honorary  degrees  conferred  upon  him  by  Wesleyan  University,  the  University 
of  Michigan  and  Northwestern  University,  in  which  he  began  his  scientific  career 
as  professor  of  physics  and  chemistry  in  1872. 

"Professor  Carhart 's  influence  on  the  teaching  of  physics  was  no  less  active 
and  effective,  and  both  his  university  and  elementary  textbooks  are  very  ex- 
tensively used.  His  clear  and  attractive  method  of  treating  the  subject  has 
done  much  to  arouse  and  develop  the  interest  of  thousands  of  students. 

"The  Mount  Wilson  Observatory  was  fortunate  enough  to  enjoy  Professor 
Carhart 's  co-operation  in  certain  physical  researches,  the  success  of  which  de- 
pended upon  the  use  of  the  standard  cell.  The  members  of  its  staff  who  thus 
learned  to  know  his  many  attractive  qualities  have  special  reason  to  mourn  his 
loss." 

Dr.  Carhart  was  a  pioneer  along  many  lines  of  the  practical  application  of 
science.  Before  he  had  ever  seen  a  telephone  he  invented  one  which  worked 
very  successfully;  he  was  the  first  person  in  Chicago  to  utilize  the  incandescent 
lamp.  In  1871  Dr.  Carhart,  in  conjunction  with  his  brother,  Dr.  J.  W.  Car- 
hart, designed  a  steam  engine  for  the  first  automobile.  This  crude  machine  was 
built  at  Racine,  Wisconsin,  at  the  plant  of  the  J.  I.  Case  Thresher  Works.  The 
original  plan  of  the  automobile  was  evolved  in  the  mind  of  Dr.  J.  W.  Carhart. 

It  is  safe  to  say  that  a  large  majority  of  American  boys  and  girls  who  have 
gone  through  high  school  and  college  in  the  past  thirty  years  immediately 
recognize  the  name  Carhart  in  connection  with  scientific  text  books.  His  prin- 
cipal works  are :  Primary  Batteries,  1891 ;  Elements  of  Physics,  with  Horatio 
N.  Chute  as  collaborator,  1892-97 ;  University  Physics,  1894-96 ;  Electrical  Meas, 


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urements,  with  George  W.  Patterson,  1895;  High  School  Physics,  with  H.  N. 
Chute,  1901;  College  Physics,  1910;  First  Principles  of  Physics,  with  H.  N. 
Chute,  1912;  Physics  With  Applications,  with  H.  N.  Chute,  1917.  His  last 
work  went  to  the  press  just  before  his  death;  it  is  a  compilation  of  his  original 
work  on  cells,  under  the  title  Thermo  Electromotive  Force  in  Electric  Cells. 

When  Dr.  Carhart  was  granted  a  retiring  allowance  by  the  Carnegie  Foun- 
dation, the  president  of  the  fund,  Dr.  Pritchett,  himself  a  distinguished  American 
scientist,  gave  solicitous  expression  in  a  letter  to  President  Angell  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  Michigan  to  the  high  estimate  entertained  in  scientfic  circles  concern- 
ing Dr.  Carhart  as  a  teacher  and  an  investigator. 

August  30,  1876,  Dr.  Carhart  married  Miss  Ellen  M.  Soule  of  Ossining,  New 
York,  who  was  at  that  time  dean  of  the  Woman's  College  of  Northwestern 
University.  Mrs.  Carhart,  who  survives  him,  brought  to  him  the  companionship 
of  a  woman  of  fine  literary  attainments  and  social  gifts.  Dr.  Carhart 's  only 
son,  Emory  Richard  Carhart,  has  inherited  his  father's  interest  in  mechanics, 
which  he  puts  to  practical  use  as  an  automobile  distributor  on  a  large  scale. 
One  daughter,  Margaret  Sprague  Carhart,  carries  on  her  father's  interest  in 
education  as  a  teacher  in  California.  The  youngest  child,  Mrs.  Evans  Ramsey 
Cheeseman,  lives  in  San  Francisco. 


^tlltam  JUenjamtn  £kott 


J^^^^^^RlLLIAM  BENJAMIN  SCOTT,  while  he  began  his  career  in  the 
WZJ^5^       Gwl    California  oil  fields  as  a  rig  builder,  had  attained  a  quarter  of 
\  V  J  sen    a  century  later  a  reputation  as  one  of  the  most  active  and  sue-* 
f*yj   \A/  cessf ul  oil  operators  in  the  state.   He  was  associated  in  business 

PkS    anc*  on  ^e  P^ane  °^  friendship  with  a  notable  group  of  Cali- 
£=*eTXtfl  tf3ndP=s    ^orn^a  men>  men  whose  material  achievements  have  made  up 
nL'GS^'n^o&J^    the  constructive  progress  of  the  Southwest,  and  whose  ideals 
and  character  as  business  men  and  citizens  can  never  be  suffi- 
ciently admired. 

William  Benjamin  Scott  was  born  in  Johnson  County,  Missouri,  November 
15,  1868,  and  came  to  California  too  young  to  remember  anything  of  the  state 
of  his  birth  or  the  journey  to  the  far  West.  His  parents  settled  at  Santa  Paula, 
where  Mr.  Scott  was  educated,  one  of  his  teachers  being  Hon.  Thomas  0.  Toland, 
of  Los  Angeles.  He  served  an  apprenticeship  as  a  carpenter,  and  it  was  his  skill 
at  that  trade  that  made  him  a  useful  factor  at  the  beginning  of  his  oil  career  as  a 
rig  builder  with  the  Union  Oil  Company  of  California.  He  worked  for  this  com- 
pany in  Torrey  Canyon  and  the  Tarr  Creek  districts  of  Ventura  County.  He  was 
fascinated  by  the  oil  industry,  and  it  undoubtedly  brought  out  the  finest  qualities 
of  an  executive  genius  that  lay  dormant  under  his  role  as  a  mechanic.  He  learned 
tool  dressing,  the  practical  operations  of  drilling,  and  his  experience  comprised 
every  technical  process  involved  in  oil  production. 

Mr.  Scott's  independent  operations  commenced  in  1894,  when  he  came  to 
Los  Angeles  and  began  building  rigs  by  contract  for  different  oil  operators  in 
the  Los  Angeles  city  fields.  This  was  followed  by  his  drilling  oil  wells  under 
contract  for  various  companies.  Later  a  partnership  was  formed  by  Mr.  Scott 
and  Mr.  William  Loftus,  and  for  several  years  this  firm  was  engaged  in  operating 
for  themselves  and  drilling  wells  by  contract  for  others. 

In  1898,  together  with  Mr.  W.  L.  Hardison,  Mr.  Scott  secured  leases  in  the 
Olinda  oil  district  in  Orange  County,  California,  which  formed  the  basis  for  the 
organization  of  the  Columbia  Oil  Company,  of  which  Mr.  Hardison  was  president, 
and  Mr.  Scott  vice  president.  In  1900  this  company  was  reorganized  as  the 
Columbia  Oil  Producing  Company,  having  an  authorized  capital  of  $1,000,000, 
with  Mr.  Hardison  as  president,  and  Mr.  Scott  as  vice  president,  with  whom  were 
also  associated  Mr.  Harry  Chandler,  Guy  L.  Hardison  and  F.  X.  Pfaffinger  and 
other  Los  Angeles  business  men. 

In  1903  a  consolidation  was  effected  between  the  Columbia  Oil  Producing 
Company  and  the  Puente  Oil  Company,  the  latter  company  being  headed  by  W. 
R.  Rowland,  and  with  him  associated  J.  A.  Graves,  Richard  and  William  Lacey 
and  others,  Mr.  Hardison  becoming  president  and  Mr.  Scott  vice  president  of 
the  consolidated  companies.  This  gave  the  reorganization  an  operating  refinery 
at  Chino,  as  well  as  a  selling  organization,  thus  combining  production,  refining 
and  marketing.  By  1907  Mr.  Scott  had  greatly  increased  his  stock  holdings  and 
had  become  president  of  the  company.  During  that  year,  also,  Mr.  Scott,  together 
with  E.  A.  Clampitt,  Captain  Tompkinson,  I.  N.  Richards  and  others,  organized 
the  Orange  Oil  Company,  which  controlled  fifty-six  acres  in  Brea  Canyon,  Mr. 

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Scott  becoming  also  president  of  this  new  company.  This  Brea  Canyon  property 
became  very  productive.  In  1909,  with  the  purchase  of  four  hundred  acres 
adjoining  the  old  Puente  property  in  Brea  Canyon,  the  Pico  Oil  Company  was 
organized  by  Mr.  Scott,  Harry  Chandler,  General  Sherman,  W.  L.  Stewart, 
Chester  W.  Brown  and  Charles  Astley. 

The  final  consolidation  of  all  these  properties  and  companies  was  effected  in 
1912,  at  which  time  the  capital  stock  of  the  Columbia  was  increased  to  three 
million  five  hundred  thousand  shares  par  value  one  dollar.  The  holdings  con- 
sisted of  about  five  thousand  acres  of  oil  lands,  leases  and  mineral  rights  in  fee, 
located  in  Orange  and  Los  Angeles  counties,  with  approximately  a  hundred  wells 
of  substantial  production  and  a  refinery  and  sales  organization.  While  some  of 
his  prominent  associates  have  been  named,  the  substantial  credit  for  this  progres- 
sive accumulation  of  oil  properties  and  the  business  organization  is  due  to  the 
foresight  and  genius  of  Mr.  Scott,  who  became  president  of  the  reorganized  com- 
pany, his  fellow  directors  being  Chandler,  Stewart,  Rowland,  Sherman,  Clampitt 
and  Astley.  Mr.  Scott  remained  as  chief  executive  until  August,  1919,  when  the 
Union  Oil  Company  of  Delaware  purchased  and  contracted  to  purchase  the  out- 
standing stock  of  the  company  on  a  basis  of  six  million  dollars  to  the  stock- 
holders. The  Eastern  company  took  over  the  property  and  active  management 
January  1,  1920,  and  by  special  request  Mr.  Scott  remained  on  the  board  of 
directors,  and  was  serving  as  such  at  the  time  of  his  death  on  April  27,  1920. 

He  died  in  his  fifty-second  year,  and  while  his  friends  were  shocked  by  his 
premature  end,  all  admired  the  tremendous  array  of  achievements  to  the  credit  of 
his  life.  They  had  known  him  as  a  tireless  worker,  a  man  of  rare  good  judgment 
and  business  acumen,  not  as  a  shrewd  bargainer,  but,  as  one  friend  said,  "He  used 
the  golden  rule  as  a  yardstick  for  the  measure  of  his  conduct,  and  if  he  had 
any  doubt  as  to  its  application  in  the  matter  at  issue,  he  gave  the  other  the  benefit 
of  the  doubt."  It  means  a  great  deal  when  one  of  his  friends  could  sincerely 
say:  "He  was  brave,  kind,  good,  true.  His  every  thought  was  pure  and  honest 
and  his  every  act  a  living  expression  of  his  noble  thought."  Many  stories  have 
been  told  illustrating  his  integrity  of  character.  All  the  years  he  was  in  the  oil 
fields  he  was  strictly  a  legitimate  operator,  and  no  one  could  ever  tempt  him  to 
join  in  the  frequent  "  wildcatting  "  practices  that  prevailed  here  as  elsewhere.  He 
also  had  a  high  measure  of  appreciation  for  those  who  worked  for  him  and  with 
him  for  the  success  of  his  business.  At  the  time  of  the  sale  to  the  Eastern  in- 
vestors, and  upon  the  initiative  of  Mr.  Scott,  a  special  bonus  was  paid  to  all 
employes  of  the  company  equal  to  ten  per  cent  of  the  entire  amount  earned  by 
each  during  continuous  employment.  This  generous  provision  called  for  the 
distribution  of  approximately  $110,000.  That  act  was  characteristic  of  Scott's 
numerous  kindly  acts  to  his  fellow  men,  though  many  of  the  impulses  that  directed 
him  to  practical  generosity  were  completely  hidden  from  public  view. 

In  addition  to  his  activities  as  an  oil  operator,  Mr.  Scott  had  a  diversity  of 
interests.  He  was  a  director  of  the  Citizens  National  Bank,  and  a  director  of  the 
Los  Angeles  Chamber  of  Oil  and  Mines.  He  also  served  on  important  committees 
of  the  Los  Angeles  and  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

On  June  24,  1896,  Mr.  Scott  was  married  to  Miss  Luna  M.  Hardison,  of 
Caribou,  Maine.  This  union  was  blessed  with  two  children,  Miss  Josephine  Scott, 
now  a  student  at  Stanford  University,  and  William  Keith  Scott,  a  student  of  Los 
Angeles  High  School. 

It  was  the  financiers,  business  executives,  prominent  men  in  social,  profes- 
sional and  public  affairs,  and  the  numerous  employes  who  had  worked  under 
his  leadership,  who  rendered  sincere  and  complete  homage  to  the  life  and  services 
of  Mr.  Scott  at  the  time  of  his  death.  He  was  laid  to  rest  in  Inglewood  cemetery, 
the  burial  services  being  conducted  by  the  Santa  Paula  Masonic  Lodge,  of  which 
he  was  a  life  member. 


Cfmrles  Strelbert  Canftelb 


HARLES  ADELBERT  CANFIELD,  who  died  August  15,  1913, 
at  his  home  in  Los  Angeles,  California,  was  a  pioneer  and  one 
of  most  conspicuous  factors  in  the  development  of  the  great 
oil  fields  of  Southern  California  and  Mexico  with  which  his 
name  will  be  forever  predominantly  associated.  Before  that  he 
had  been  a  miner  in  Colorado,  Nevada,  Utah,  New  Mexico, 
California,  and  always  and  everywhere  he  had  played  the  game 
fair.  All  his  life  long,  in  business  and  out,  he  stood  for  the 
square  deal  and  never  failed  to  keep  his  word  in  small  as  well  as  in  big  things. 
A  gentle,  kindly  spirit  masking  a  brave  heart  and  a  prodigious  strength — he 
gave  generously,  unostentatiously,  almost  surreptitiously,  and  never  shunned  a 
task  however  formidable. 

Life  to  the  late  Mr.  Canfield  was  a  continuous  adventure.  Resolute  in  his 
purpose,  ever  hopeful  of  attainment  though  again  and  again  at  the  bottom  of 
his  resources,  he  never  sounded  the  depths  of  discouragement  because  his  was 
the  spirit  which  rises  upon  the  ashes  of  failure. 

He  was  born  at  Springfield,  Erie  County,  May  15,  1848,  on  a  farm  which 
is  now  part  of  the  city  of  Buffalo,  New  York,  but  the  westward  immigration 
of  his  parents  in  1863  carried  him  to  Minnesota  where  he  finished  his  schooling. 
After  a  couple  of  years  of  farming  and  local  business  experience  he  left  home 
in  1869  for  Colorado  where  in  the  Boulder  district  he  got  his  first  job  in  a  twenty 
stamp  mill  of  the  "Ni  Wot"  mine  and  his  first  lesson  in  the  field  in  which  later 
he  became  so  commanding  a  figure. 

For  nearly  five  years  he  worked  in  Colorado  mines  taking  advantage  of 
every  opportunity  to  improve  his  practical  skill  and  to  extend  his  knowledge 
of  lead  mining,  and  when  he  went  into  the  Eureka  Consolidated  Mine  at  Ruby 
Hill,  Nevada,  1874,  there  were  few  so  expert  as  he  in  placing  a  charge  or  driv- 
ing a  tunnel,  and  fewer  still  among  his  companions  with  his  keen  and  apprecia- 
tive judgment  of  ore.  It  was  in  fact  a  common  saying  around  the  camps  that 
' '  Charley  Canfield  didn 't  need  any  assayer  to  tell  him  if  his  '  prospect '  had  a  pay 
streak. ' ' 

On  January  22,  1879,  at  Grand  Island,  Nebraska,  he  married  Chloe,  daughter 
of  Oscar  U.  Wescott,  whom  he  had  first  seen  on  a  visit  home  four  years  previously, 
and  took  her  to  Ruby  Hill  where  they  continued  to  live  until  the  birth  of  their 
first  child,  Florence,  a  year  later,  and  on  to  the  spring  of  1881  when  reports 
of  rich  discoveries  in  the  Southwest  swept  them  to  Chloride,  New  Mexico. 

Here  Mr.  Canfield  entered  upon  a  period  of  indefatigable  and  intelligent 
prospecting,  contracting,  leasing,  which  stretched  over  a  long  five  years  of  ups 
and  downs  such  as  would  have  used  up  a  less  hardy  man  and  utterly  disheartened 
a  less  determined  and  courageous  one,  but  which  led  finally  to  his  discovery 
of  some  very  rich  surface  prospects  adjoining  an  undeveloped  claim  known 
as  the  "Comstock."  Believing  these  surface  indications  to  be  worth  following 
up  he  secured  a  six  months  lease  on  the  claim  giving  a  one-third  interest  each  to  a 
couple  of  local  miners — Barton  and  Rugg — who  were  to  find  the  money  for  the 
development  work.    Little  money  was  forthcoming  however  and  nearly  three 

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months  passed  with  nothing  to  show  for  their  hard  work  but  a  bill  for  powder 
and  fuse  which  threatened  to  close  them  out. 

The  partners  were  for  quitting  but  Canfield  persisted  in  his  reliance  on  the 
promise  of  the  prospects  he  had  uncovered  and  would  not  quit.  So  together  the 
three  went  to  the  Percha  Bank,  at  Kingston,  where  Norman  C.  Raff,  its  cashier 
and  part  owner,  loaned  them  on  their  joint  note  the  $100  needed  to  pay  their  bill 
and  give  them  fresh  credit  for  more  powder  and  grub. 

Within  the  week  they  had  ' '  struck  it ' '  and  within  the  month  these  men  who 
had  experienced  such  difficulty  in  raising  $100  were  taking  $10,000  a  day  out  of 
an  ore  chamber  they  had  opened  up,  and  which  became  known  throughout  the 
greatly  excited  Black  Range  mining  district  as  the  "Canfield  Bonanza." 

Probably  half  a  million  dollars  in  bullion  was  taken  out  of  this  chamber 
within  the  remaining  three  months,  and  when  the  lease  had  expired  Mr.  Canfield 
moved  with  his  family  early  in  1887  to  Los  Angeles. 

He  had  great  faith  in  the  future  of  this  town  and,  as  was  his  habit,  backed 
his  judgment  with  his  money,  in  this  instance  so  heavily  that  in  the  depression 
following  the  burst  of  a  real  estate  boom  Mr.  Canfield  was  unable  to  save  his 
holdings  or  more  than  a  comparative  few  dollars  of  the  comfortable  fortune 
he  had  brought  from  New  Mexico  only  two  years  before. 

The  fact  that  Mr.  Canfield 's  investments  in  1888  included  the  block  at 
Seventh  Street  and  Grand  Avenue  (now  occupied  by  J.  W.  Robinson  &  Co.) 
suggests  his  remarkable  judgment,  his  vision  and  his  faith  in  the  future  of 
Los  Angeles. 

Fortune  had  dealt  him  a  terrible  blow,  but  not  a  knock  out;  he  was  "broke," 
but  not  in  spirit.  With  unfaltering  faith  in  his  ability  to  win  out,  heartened  by 
the  courageous  spirit  of  his  plucky  wife  who  remained  in  Los  Angeles  to  care 
for  the  five  children,  he  took  up  again  in  1890  the  arduous  trail  of  the  prospector 
with  its  hopes  and  its  hardships  and  its  disappointments,  and  followed  it  for 
two  years  in  the  Mojave  Desert,  California,  locating  one  or  two  mines  which 
paid  expenses  but  from  which  no  considerable  money  was  ever  taken. 

It  was  during  this  period  that  Mr.  Canfield  ran  across  Edward  L.  Doheny, 
an  old  mining  friend  of  New  Mexico  days,  on  his  way  from  New  Mexico  to  Los 
Angeles,  who,  late  in  1892,  noticed  oil  exudes  on  the  west  borders  of  Los  Angeles 
and  told  of  his  discovery  to  Canfield  because,  as  he  said  years  later,  "I  always 
had  great  faith  in  his  general  mining  knowledge,  and  when  Canfield  said  they 
looked  good  he  and  I,  in  November,  1892,  began  sinking  the  first  well  on  the 
Pacific  Coast  with  simple  picks  and  shovels  at  the  corner  of  the  present  Lake 
Shore  Avenue  and  Patton  Street. ' ' 

This  was  the  beginning  of  the  business  association — which  continued  to  Mr. 
Canfield 's  death — of  these  two  men  so  dissimilar  in  temperament,  yet  so  comple- 
mentary one  to  the  other  and  to  the  success  of  the  immense  and  daring  projects 
upon  which  they  subsequently  embarked,  and  from  this  modest  start  it  was 
too  that  these  two  men  grew  in  a  few  years  to  a  commanding  position  in  the  oil 
producing  world. 

Later  Mr.  Canfield  located,  alone,  and  developed  the  Coalinga  field  and 
then  with  Mr.  Doheny  opened  the  wells  of  Bakersfield.  Still  later  other  com- 
panies were  organized,  Mexico  unfolded  a  wealth  of  opportunity  and  much  out- 
side money  became  a  necessity  to  capitalize  their  extended  working  plans  and 
thus  fully  to  realize  upon  the  glowing  prospects  of  the  new  fields.  In  this 
undertaking  Mr.  Canfield 's  well  known  judgment  and  established  reputation  of 
accomplishing  what  he  set  his  hand  to  do  proved  a  mighty  help  in  making  it 
possible  to  finance  operations  on  such  gigantic  scale. 

At  his  death  he  shared  with  Mr.  Doheny  control  of  the  Mexican  Petroleum, 
Huasteca  Petroleum,  American  Oil  Fields,  California  Petroleum,  Bankers  Oil, 
Mexican  Paving  and  Mexican  Gas  companies,  besides  being  the  dominant  figure 
in  a  number  of  other  small  companies. 


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His  acknowledged  business  acumen  and  faith  in  the  future  of  Southern 
California  made  him  an  eagerly  sought  stockholder  and  director  and  his  interests 
outside  of  oil  grew  gradually  to  be  many,  embracing  well  nigh  every  new  enter- 
prise of  merit  launched  on  the  southern  coast.  He  had  an  abiding  love  for  land 
and  was  ever  accumulating  it  and  supporting  land  developing  companies  until 
his  acreage  mounted  into  the  thousands  scattered  over  the  state,  while  his  stock 
holdings  included  the  South  Coast,  Dolgeville,  Harbor  View,  New  Richmond 
land  companies,  the  Rodeo  Land  &  Water  and  the  Pacific  Wharf  &  Storage  com- 
panies. In  addition  he  was  in  a  number  of  the  more  important  banks  of 
Southern  California  including  the  Citizens  National,  Security  Trust  and  Savings, 
Farmers  and  Merchants  of  Los  Angeles  and  the  Southern  Trust  and  Commerce  of 
San  Diego,  as  well  as  the  Merchants  National  Bank  of  San  Francisco,  all  of 
which  constituted  an  extensive  and  valuable  aggregate  and  most  of  which  ex- 
pressed the  builders  impulse  that  held  Mr.  Canfield  so  completely  in  possession. 

His  heart  however  was  always  with  the  oil  game  because  it  satisfied  that 
very  impulse  and  represented  to  him  the  adventure  and  the  energy  it  had  re- 
quired to  develop  their  properties  at  a  time  when  eastern  oil  interests  were 
actively  hostile  and  capital  was  exceedingly  difficult  to  obtain.  In  no  sense  was 
Mr.  Canfield  a  "dollar  chaser,"  and  even  after  great  wealth  had  come  to  him 
he  retained  his  democratic  simplicity  and  found  more  gratification  in  construc- 
tive labor  itself  than  in  the  mere  money  fruits  of  those  labors. 

He  loved  flowers  and  was  proud  of  his  fine  gardens;  he  loved  animals, 
especially  driving  horses,  of  which  he  had  several  finely  bred  ones  in  his  own 
stables;  he  was  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  Driving  Club  and  a  generous 
patron  of  local  matinee  racing  or  amateur  trotting,  for  the  encouragement  of 
which  he  donated  a  large  and  handsome  grand  stand  at  Exposition  Park. 

Mr.  Canfield  exemplified  by  his  own  life  the  principles  that  the  man  of 
wealth  owes  a  duty  to  his  fellows.  Always  on  the  outlook  to  lend  a  helping 
hand,  his  chief  concern  was  the  youth  that  had  not  had  a  fair  chance  and  the 
worthy  who  had  been  bowled  over  by  hard  luck.  He  was  one  of  the  two  chief 
supporters  of  the  McKinley  Home  for  Boys,  and  in  his  will  made  generous  pro- 
vision for  an  especially  equipped  school  of  training  and  research  which  his 
trustees  are  about  to  establish  for  defective  children. 

Mr.  Canfield 's  was  the  builder's  vision.  He  walked  in  realms  beyond  the 
comprehension  of  his  associates.  In  the  mines,  the  oil  fields,  the  directors  room 
he  was  a  clear  headed  advisor  of  remarkable  constructive  ability,  and  everywhere 
he  went  was  always  a  mighty  agency  for  right.  He  had  a  rare  philosophy,  a  dry, 
delightful  humor,  a  deeply  rooted  sense  of  justice.  He  was  a  man  to  be  loved 
and  trusted.  In  the  words  of  the  Memoriam  issued  by  his  Mexican  Petroleum 
associates:  "He  was  more  than  a  partner,  more  than  an  associate  in  business, 
more  than  a  fellow  worker;  he  was  a  friend — kindly,  serene,  warm  hearted  and 
unfailingly  dependable. ' ' 

Mr.  Canfield  was  survived  by  the  following  children :  Mrs.  Caspar  Whitney, 
of  New  York;  Mrs.  J.  M.  Danziger,  Mrs.  S.  M.  Spalding  and  Charles  0.  Can- 
field,  of  Los  Angeles;  Mrs.  J.  H.  Himes,  of  Canton,  Ohio,  and  also  by  an  adopted 
daughter,  Mrs.  Raymond  Cheseldine,  of  London,  Ohio. 


OSEPH  TOPLITZKY,  though  prominently  connected  as  a  Los 
Angeles  real  estate  man,  was  in  early  life  a  promising  actor 
on  the  stage  and  his  introduction  to  Southern  California  was  in 
theatrical  circles. 

He  was  born  at  New  Haven,  Connecticut,  December  25, 
1884,  a  son  of  Meyer  and  Ida  Toplitzky.  He  attended  public 
schools  to  the  age  of  fourteen,  but  beginning  at  ten  was  playing 
child  parts  with  stock  and  other  companies,  and  continued  his 
work  with  the  theatre  until  1900.  He  performed  in  companies  of  such  celebreties 
as  Andrew  Mack,  Chauncey  Olcott,  Otis  Skinner,  Sir  Henry  Irving  and  the 
late  James  Neill. 

Mr.  Toplitzky  came  to  Los  Angeles  with  his  parents  in  1900,  being  then 
sixteen  years  of  age,  and  was  soon  employed  as  an  usher  at  the  Los  Angeles 
Theatre  with  H.  C.  Wyatt.  Later  he  was  with  the  Mason  Theatre  and  in  time 
had  achieved  the  responsibilities  of  assistant  to  Mr.  Wyatt.  He  left  the  theatre 
in  1911  to  engage  in  the  general  real  estate  business,  and  since  then  has  handled 
downtown  and  acreage  property  and  has  been  markedly  successful  in  this  field. 
He  is  president  of  the  Cross  Land  Company,  is  interested  in  several  oil  prop- 
erties and  has  offices  in  the  H.  W.  Hellman  Building. 

Mr.  Toplitzky  is  a  republican  in  politics.  July  10,  1912,  he  married  Elsie 
B.  Crossley  and  they  have  one  daughter,  Beth,  born  in  1918. 


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,RANCIS  S.  MONTGOMERY  engaged  in  the  practice  of  law  in  the 
City  of  Los  Angeles  shortly  after  his  graduation  in  Georgetown 
University,  District  of  Columbia,  and  while  he  made  an  admir- 
able and  successful  record  in  the  work  of  his  profession,  the 
impaired  health  of  his  father-in-law,  Victor  Ponet,  led  him  to 
assume  active  supervision  of  the  latter 's  large  and  varied  capi- 
talistic and  business  interests  in  the  year  1912,  and  since  that 
time  this  service  has  demanded  the  major  part  of  his  time  and 
attention.  He  maintains  his  residence  at  Hollywood.  He  is  now  the  president 
of  the  Ponet  Company,  with  headquarters  in  Los  Angeles. 

Mr.  Montgomery  was  born  at  Concordia,  Kansas,  June  23,  1878,  and  is  a 
son  of  Pius  L.  and  Sarah  (Stanton)  Montgomery.  The  late  Archbishop  George 
Montgomery,  who  served  as  bishop  of  the  Catholic  diocese  of  Monterey  and 
Los  Angeles,  California,  from  1894  to  1903,  was  the  eldest  brother  of  him  whose 
name  initiates  this  sketch. 

Francis  S.  Montgomery  acquired  his  preliminary  education  in  the  parochial 
and  public  schools  of  his  native  place,  and  in  the  furtherance  of  his  higher 
academic  education  he  completed  a  course  in  the  college  of  arts  of  Creighton 
University,  in  the  City  of  Omaha,  Nebraska,  from  which  institution  he  was  grad- 
uated in  1904,  with  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts.  He  then  entered  Georgetown 
University,  District  of  Columbia,  in  which  great  institution  he  pursued  courses 
both  in  philosophy  and  law  and  from  which  he  was  graduated  in  1907,  with 
the  degrees  of  Doctor  of  Philosophy  and  Bachelor  of  Laws.  Shortly  after  his 
graduation  he  came  to  California  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  this  state. 
Thereafter  he  was  engaged  in  practice  at  Los  Angeles  until,  as  already  noted, 
he  assumed  executive  duties  in  connection  with  the  business  affairs  of  his 
father-in-law. 

Mr.  Montgomery  gives  his  political  allegiance  to  the  republican  party.  He 
and  his  wife  are  communicants  of  the  Catholic  Church,  and  he  is  affiliated  with 
the  Knights  of  Columbus,  besides  being  a  member  of  the  Newman  Club  in  Los 
Angeles. 

On  the  3d  of  July,  1907,  at  St.  Victor's  Church,  Hollywood,  California, 
was  solemnized  the  marriage  of  Mr.  Montgomery  to  Miss  Gertrude  Ponet.  Mrs. 
Montgomery  received  the  best  of  educational  advantages  in  her  youth.  She  at- 
tended one  of  the  leading  convent  schools  in  the  City  of  Los  Angeles,  and  later 
was  a  student  in  a  representative  Catholic  educational  institution  in  the  City 
of  San  Francisco,  besides  which  she  attended  Notre  Dame  Convent  in  the  City 
of  Brussels,  Belgium.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Montgomery  have  traveled  somewhat  ex- 
tensively since  their  marriage,  but  they  never  fail  in  appreciation  of  and  loyalty 
to  their  home  state.  They  have  four  children,  Victor  Ponet,  George  Francis, 
Francis  Joseph  and  William  John.  The  year  1920  finds  the  eldest  son  a  student 
in  the  Academy  of  the  Holy  Name  at  Santa  Monica,  he  being  eleven  years  of  age, 
and  George  Francis,  aged  ten,  and  Francis  Joseph,  aged  seven,  are  likewise  at- 
tending this  institution,  the  youngest  son  being  four  years  of  age  at  the  time 
of  the  preparation  of  this  article.  Following  will  be  found  a  memoir  to  the 
late  Victor  Ponet,  father  of  Mrs.  Montgomery. 

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T  WAS  well  within  the  powers  and  ambition  of  the  late  Victor 
Ponet  to  have  marked  the  passing  years  with  large  and  worthy 
achievement,  and  he  was  one  of  the  honored  and  influential 
pioneer  citizens  of  California  at  the  time  of  his  death,  which 
occurred  on  the  7th  of  February,  1914.  He  was  in  the  most 
significant  degree  the  architect  of  his  own  fortunes,  and  in  his 
progressive  career  in  California  his  activities  conserved  not 
only  his  individual  success  but  also  the  well  being  of  the  com- 
munity at  large. 

Victor  Ponet  was  born  in  Lemburg,  Belgium,  on  the  9th  of  March,  1836,  a 
son  of  Lawrence  and  Gertrude  A.  (Wauters)  Ponet,  his  father  having  been  a 
farmer  by  vocation  and  having  served  as  a  soldier  under  the  great  Napoleon. 
In  the  excellent  schools  of  his  native  land  Victor  Ponet  continued  his  studies 
until  he  had  attained  to  the  age  of  seventeen  years,  after  which  he  served  a 
three  years'  apprenticeship  to  the  trade  of  cabinet-maker,  in  which  he  became 
a  skilled  artisan.  After  having  followed  his  trade  several  years  in  the  City  of 
Paris,  France,  his  ambition  and  self-reliance  led  him  in  1865  to  come  to  the 
United  States.  He  readily  found  employment  at  his  trade  in  New  York  City, 
where  he  remained  until  1867,  when  he  came  to  California.  He  made  the  journey 
by  way  of  the  Isthmus  of  Panama  and  thence  proceeded  up  the  coast  to  San 
Francisco,  where  he  remained  two  years.  He  then  came  to  Los  Angeles  and 
entered  vigorously  and  loyally  into  the  civic  and  business  affairs  of  the  city,  which 
then  had  a  population  of  not  more  than  4,500  people.  In  1885  he  sold  his  busi- 
ness and  thereafter  he  passed  two  years  in  making  a  tour  of  Europe,  in  connection 
with  which  he  found  special  satisfaction  in  visiting  his  old  home  in  Belgium.  For 
many  years  Mr.  Ponet  and  his  wife  maintained  their  home  on  a  ranch  southwest 
of  the  City  of  Los  Angeles,  and  much  of  this  land  is  now  included  within  the 
corporate  limits  of  the  city,  their  residence  having  been  situated  at  the  juncture 
of  the  present  Alvarado  and  Pico  streets.  Eventually  Mr.  Ponet  subdivided 
this  property  and  effected  its  improvement,  and  he  finally  removed  to  his  fine 
ranch  at  West  Hollywood,  which  continued  to  be  his  place  of  abode  during  the 
remainder  of  his  life.  His  substantial  financial  success  was  gained  largely 
through  his  wise  investments  in  real  estate  in  Los  Angeles  County,  the  same  hav- 
ing greatly  increased  in  value  with  the  remarkable  development  and  upbuilding 
of  this  favored  section  of  California.  In  the  early  period  of  his  residence  in 
Los  Angeles  he  purchased  Fiesta  Park,  bounded  by  Pico  Street,  Twelfth  Street, 
Grand  Avenue  and  Hope  Street.  On  this  property  he  erected  one  of  the  hand- 
some apartment  buildings  of  the  city,  and  the  former  park  is  now  known  as 
Ponet  Square,  upon  which  the  family  has  erected  a  modern  hotel  building  and 
eight  automobile  .structures,  among  the  best  in  Los  Angeles.  At  West  Hollywood 
he  purchased  a  large  tract  of  land  upon  which  he  built  a  spacious  and  beautiful 
country  house,  and  he  made  this  one  of  the  ideal  places  of  the  county.  He  ac- 
cumulated other  valuable  ranch  properties,  as  well  as  other  realty  in  the  City 
of  Los  Angeles,  and  his  liberality  in  the  handling  and  improving  of  his  various 
properties  contributed  much  to  the  material  development  and  civic  prosperity 
of  Los  Angeles. 

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VICTOR  PONET 


Mr.  Ponet  was  a  man  who  had  fine  appreciation  of  the  personal  stewardship 
which  success  involves,  and  his  gracious  character  was  shown  in  unostentatious 
benevolences  and  charities,  as  well  as  in  earnest  and  liberal  support  of  the  various 
activities  of  the  Catholic  Church  in  this  diocese.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ponet  deeded 
the  land  and  erected  on  the  same  the  present  edifice  of  St.  Victor's  Church,  and 
made  both  land  and  building  a  gift  to  the  diocese. 

Mr.  Ponet  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  German-American  Savings  Bank 
of  Los  Angeles,  an  institution  now  bearing  the  corporate  title  of  the  Guaranty 
Trust  &  Savings  Bank.  He  became  a  director  of  the  bank,  and  in  1894  he  was 
elected  its  president,  a  position  of  which  he  continued  the  incumbent  three  years. 
He  was  one  of  the  organizers  also  of  the  Los  Angeles  Chamber  of  Commerce  and 
gave  liberally  of  his  time  and  money  in  fostering  and  developing  the  new  institu- 
tion, of  which  he  served  many  years  as  a  trustee.  He  took  lively  and  helpful 
interest  in  all  things  touching  the  welfare  of  Los  Angeles  and  all  of  Southern 
California,  and  was  essentially  a  broad-minded,  liberal  and  public-spirited  citi- 
zen. He  was  a  most  zealous  communicant  of  the  Catholic  Church,  he  was  affiliated 
with  the  Knights  of  Columbus  and  he  held  membership  in  the  Newman  and 
Jonathan  clubs. 

He  served  many  years  as  a  representative  of  Belgian  consular  interests  at 
Los  Angeles.  On  the  5th  day  of  January,  1894,  he  was  appointed  consular 
agent  at  Los  Angeles,  and  on  the  31st  of  December,  1897,  he  was  made  Belgian 
vice-consul  for  Southern  California  and  Arizona.  On  the  20th  of  May,  1906, 
there  came  to  him  distinguished  recognition  from  the  ruler  of  his  native  land, 
as  on  that  date  King  Leopold  of  Belgium  conferred  on  him  the  knightly  honor 
of  Chevalier  de  L'Ordre  de  Leopold.  In  politics  Mr.  Ponet  was  well  fortified 
in  his  convictions  and  gave  his  allegiance  to  the  republican  party.  A  man  of  in- 
tegrity and  honor  in  all  the  relations  of  life,  he  left  an  enduring  and  worthy 
impress  upon  the  history  of  the  city  and  county  of  Los  Angeles,  where  he  gained 
pioneer  prestige  and  proved  also  an  apostle  of  progress. 

In  the  year  1874  was  solemnized  the  marriage  of  Mr.  Ponet  to  Miss  Ellen  J. 
Manning,  a  native  of  Ireland,  and  she  survived  him  by  five  years — a  woman  whose 
gentle  and  gracious  personality  endeared  her  to  all  who  came  within  the  sphere 
of  her  influence.  Mrs.  Ponet  remained  at  the  beautiful  home  in  West  Hollywood 
until  she  too  was  summoned  to  the  life  eternal,  on  the  18th  of  February,  1919. 
She  had  passed  her  seventieth  year  and  her  funeral  obsequies  were  held  at  St. 
Vibiana's  Cathedral,  Los  Angeles,  in  the  work  of  which  parish  she  had  been 
active  in  early  years,  with  a  record  for  unassuming  support  of  charitable  and 
benevolent  agencies.  Gertrude,  the  only  child  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ponet,  is  now  the 
wife  of  Francis  S.  Montgomery,  of  whom  individual  mention  is  made  on  the 
preceding  page  of  this  work.  Rev.  William  Ponet,  C.  M.,  a  foster  son  of  the 
subject  of  this  memoir,  was  afforded  the  best  of  educational  advantages,  pre- 
pared himself  for  and  was  ordained  to  the  priesthood  of  the  Catholic  Church,  and 
now  holds  a  pastoral  charge  in  the  City  of  San  Diego,  California. 


Mrs  John  T  Gaffey 


JOHN  T  Gaffey 


3 ofm    (gaff ep 


RESIDENT  of  California  since  he  was  seven  years  of  age, 
John  T.  Gaffey  has  had  a  career  of  many  interesting  phases. 
He  has  been  a  practical  newspaper  man,  has  filled  many  public 
offices  both  appointive  and  elective,  and  has  directed  many 
large  business  affairs,  though  now  practically  retired. 

Mr.  Gaffey  whose  home  is  at  San  Pedro,  was  born  in  Gal- 
way,  Ireland,  November  1,  1860,  son  of  Thomas  and  Ann  E. 
(Tracy)  Gaffey.  His  mother's  family  was  of  old  Norman  Irish 
stock  in  Ireland  while  his  father  was  Scotch  Irish.  In  1867  the  mother  brought 
her  seven  children  by  sailing  vessel  to  America,  and  by  way  of  the  Isthmus  of 
Panama  landed  at  San  Francisco.  Going  to  Santa  Cruz  she  bought  a  large  cattle 
and  sheep  ranch.  It  was  in  this  environment  that  John  T.  Gaffey  grew  to  man- 
hood. His  early  education  was  acquired  in  private  schools  and  later  at  San 
Francisco  he  completed  the  work  of  the  Lincoln  grammar  school  and  the  Boys' 
high  school.  After  one  year  in  the  University  of  California  he  returned  to  Santa 
Cruz  in  1879  and  there  began  his  newspaper  work  as  reporter  for  the  Santa 
Cruz  Courier.  He  was  with  that  journal  two  years  and  then  established  the 
Santa  Cruz  Herald  which  he  conducted  for  three  years.  After  selling  out  he 
was  appointed  under  sheriff  of  the  county.  At  the  close  of  his  term  of  office  he 
was  appointed  clerk  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  Southern  District,  and  the 
duties  of  that  office  brought  him  to  Los  Angeles.  In  1886  he  was  elected  a 
member  of  the  Board  of  Equalization  for  the  Southern  District.  After  four 
years  he  engaged  in  mining  in  Old  Mexico,  and  during  his  absence  was  elected  a 
member  of  the  School  Board  of  Los  Angeles.  He  returned  in  time  to  serve  in 
that  position  for  ten  months.  In  1892  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the  City 
Council,  filling  the  office  for  six  months  until  he  resigned  to  take  charge  of 
Stephen  M.  White's  campaign,  and  handled  it  successfully  until  Mr.  White 
was  chosen  a  member  of  the  United  States  Senate.  For  eighteen  months  begin- 
ning in  1894  Mr.  Gaffey  also  served  as  managing  editor  of  the  Los  Angeles 
Herald. 

In  1893  he  was  appointed  Collector  of  Customs  by  President  Cleveland  for 
the  Southern  District  including  Riverside,  Orange,  Ventura  and  Los  Angeles 
counties.  At  the  close  of  his  four  year  term  he  retired  from  politics  and  gave 
his  efforts  to  his  mining  interests  in  Old  Mexico  and  oil  operations  in  Texas 
until  1906,  when  he  disposed  of  most  of  his  holdings  and  has  since  enjoyed  the 
comforts  of  his  beautiful  home  at  San  Pedro,  with  only  his  private  affairs  to 
require  his  supervision.  Mr.  Gaffey  is  president  of  the  Bandini  Baker  Estate 
Company,  is  a  director  of  the  First  National  Bank,  is  president  of  the  Gaffey 
Investment  Company,  and  is  a  member  of  the  California  Club  and  the  Bohemian 
Club  of  San  Francisco. 

June  1,  1887,  he  married  Arcadia  Bandini,  daughter  of  Don  Juan  Bandini. 
They  have  two  children,  William  T.  and  Mrs.  Captain  John  Mell.  The  son 
William  T.,  who  was  born  at  Santa  Monica,  was  educated  in  college  at  Santa 
Clara  and  soon  afterward  entered  the  United  States  Navy.  In  1917  he  was  com- 
missioned an  ensign  and  was  in  service  until  the  close  of  the  war,  being  now  on 
the  reserve  list.  The  daughter  was  educated  in  the  Sacred  Heart  Convent  at 
Menlo  Park. 

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Jfreb  Bennington  Jletoport 


ISION,  initiative,  executive  ability  and  tenacity  are  the  attri- 
butes that  have  combined  to  make  the  name  of  Fred  Penning^ 
ton  Newport  a  synonym  of  successful  real  estate  development 
from  the  viewpoint  of  both  buyer  and  seller.  Since  1907  Mr. 
Newport,  head  of  the  F.  P.  Newport  Company,  has  achieved 
distinction  as  a  pioneer  in  various  extensive  undertakings 
promoted  by  himself  and  associates. 

His  operations  cover  both  northern  and  southern  Cali- 
fornia involving  vast  acreages  of  now  high  priced  agricultural  lands  and  prop- 
erties included  in  the  most  exclusive  and  valuable  business  and  residential  sections 
of  Los  Angeles.  Strong  in  his  faith  that  Los  Angeles  was  destined  to  become  the 
most  populous  city  west  of  St.  Louis,  he  and  his  associates  invested  millions 
of  dollars  in  desirable  holdings  and  in  their  actual  development.  In  later  years, 
Delieving  that  the  action  and  influence  of  the  Panama  Canal  on  maritime  Los 
Angeles  would  make  this  metropolis  the  most  important  commercial  and  indus- 
trial center  of  the  Pacific  seaboard,  he  has  been  the  means  of  interesting  thousands 
of  people  in  tidewater  frontage  and  industrial  sites  at  Los  Angeles-Long  Beach 
harbor. 

Conforming  to  established  precedent,  at  the  present  time  he  is  pioneering  in 
a  development  unique  in  the  annals  of  Southern  California  realty — that  of  con- 
verting into  surpassingly  beautiful  home  sites  about  three  hundred  acres  of  fertile 
foothill  and  valley  lands  in  historic  Verdugo  Canyon.  In  this  "Switzerland  of 
California"  situated  in  North  Glendale  and  within  the  ten  mile  circle  from  the 
heart  of  the  city,  he  has  platted  spacious  villa  sites  and  endowed  them  with  every 
convenience,  the  most  notable  feature  perhaps  being  the  substantially  constructed 
domestic  water  system  and  development  of  electricity  for  both  cooking  and  heat- 
ing purposes.  He  has  built  a  wide  boulevard  through  the  subdivision  and  already 
many  handsome  homes  dot  this  picturesque  gem  of  the  "Mother  Mountains." 

Mr.  Newport  is  a  self  made  man,  and  though  not  yet  in  his  prime  has 
taken  his  position  among  the  influential  factors  in  business  and  financial  circles 
of  his  adopted  state.  He  was  born  in  New  Brunswick,  Canada,  son  of  Burton 
and  Mary  (Pennington)  Newport,  but  was  reared  on  an  Illinois  farm.  He  grad- 
uated from  the  Princeton  High  School  of  Illinois,  did  special  work  in  the  Uni- 
versity of  Minnesota,  the  Northwestern  University  at  Chicago,  and  Drake 
University  at  Des  Moines.  In  early  life  he  was  principal  of  schools  at  Creighton, 
Nebraska,  and  also  superintendent  of  agents  of  the  Pacific  Mutual  Life  Insurance 
Company  and  as  noted  above  for  more  than  ten  years  has  been  sole  owner  of 
F.  P.  Newport  Company. 

Mr.  Newport  is  a  member  of  the  Athletic  Club,  Los  Angeles  Country  Club, 
Tuna  Club,  Los  Angeles  Realty  Board,  Merchants  and  Manufacturers  Associa- 
tion, Chamber  of  Commerce,  National  Association  of  Real  Estate  Exchanges. 
He  is  a  Mason,  a  republican  and  a  member  of  the  Congregational  Church.  April 
19,  1901,  he  married  Letty  Johnson,  of  Meadow  Grove,  Nebraska. 


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<©eorge  jf  uller 


EORGE  FULLER,  whose  death  occurred  March  16,  1918,  at  his 
beautiful  rancho  at  Buena  Vista,  gained  distinguished  position 
as  one  of  the  representative  members  of  the  California  bar, 
served  on  the  bench  of  the  Superior  Court  of  San  Diego  County 
and  was  retained  as  counsel  for  important  corporations.  He 
became  widely  known  as  an  authority  on  corporation  and  inter- 
national law,  and  by  his  sterling  character  and  high  profes- 
sional achievement  as  well  as  by  reason  of  his  exalted  patriotism 
and  civic  loyalty  he  honored  the  state  of  his  adoption  the  while  he  gained  the 
respect  and  high  regard  of  the  people  of  California. 

Judge  Fuller  was  born  in  New  York  City  on  the  3d  of  June,  1850,  and  was 
a  son  of  Thomas  and  Henrietta  (Turner)  Fuller.  He  was  of  the  sixth  generation 
in  descent  from  Dr.  Samuel  Fuller,  who  came  to  America  on  the  historic  ship 
"Mayflower"  and  who  became  one  of  the  signers  of  the  Declaration  of  Inde- 
pendence. Judge  Fuller  acquired  his  early  education  in  the  public  schools  of 
his  native  city  and  in  preparation  for  his  chosen  profession  he  entered  the  law 
department  of  the  University  of  New  York,  where  he  applied  himself  to  his 
studies  with  characteristic  diligence  and  ambition.  In  1871  he  went  to  Madison, 
capital  of  the  State  of  Wisconsin,  where  he  entered  the  law  office  of  Hon.  John 
Coit  Spooner,  who  long  served  as  United  States  Senator  from  that  state.  He 
continued  in  the  practice  of  law  at  Madison  until  1878,  when  he  removed  to 
Providence,  Rhode  Island,  where  he  became  associated  with  the  well  known  law 
firm  of  Turston  &  Ripley,  and  where  also  he  became  a  professional  associate 
of  Carter  Woods  and  J.  Carter  Brown. 

In  1883  Judge  Fuller  came  to  the  West  and  established  himself  in  practice 
at  Tacoma,  Washington,  where  he  built  up  a  representative  law  business  and 
where  he  served  as  city  attorney.  In  his  office  in  Tacoma  Hon.  J.  Hamilton 
Lewis,  who  later  became  United  States  Senator  from  Illinois,  initiated  his  career 
as  a  lawyer,  and  the  two  continued  close  friends  until  the  death  of  Judge  Fuller. 
In  1887  Judge  Fuller  came  to  California  and  established  his  residence  at  San 
Diego,  where  he  became  general  counsel  for  the  International  Company,  of  En- 
senada,  Mexico.  Thereafter  he  continued  to  serve  in  this  capacity  during  five 
administrations  of  the  English  syndicate  that  succeeded  the  International 
Company.  He  resigned  this  post  in  1905,  in  which  year  he  came  to  Los  Angeles 
and  engaged  in  private  practice.  He  had  in  the  meanwhile  passed  much  time  in 
Mexico,  and  incidental  to  his  legal  activities  in  connection  with  Mexican  corpora- 
tions he  became  strongly  fortified  in  the  minutiae  of  international  law.  He 
organized  the  Mexican  Land  Colonization  Company  and  the  Lower  California 
Development  Company,  and  served  with  characteristic  ability  as  counsel  for  the 
important  DeBaker  estate.  In  1899,  while  a  resident  of  San  Diego,  Judge  Fuller 
formed  a  law  partnership  with  Judge  Ernest  Riall,  and  this  alliance  continued 
five  years.  In  1903  he  was  appointed  to  the  bench  of  the  Superior  Court  of 
San  Diego  County  by  Governor  Gage  to  fill  out  an  unexpired  term.  He  served 
about  eleven  months  on  the  bench  and  was  regarded  as  vouchsafed  by  his  former 
law  partner,  Judge  Riall,  one  of  the  best  judges  who  ever  sat  on  the  local  bench. 

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GEORGE  FULLER 


He  did  not  appear  as  a  candidate  for  the  office  at  the  expiration  of  the  term 
for  which  he  had  been  appointed. 

Judge  Puller  retired  from  the  active  work  of  his  profession  in  1917  and  in 
the  meanwhile  he  had  passed  much  of  his  time  on  his  fine  ranch.  He  was  a 
man  of  fine  presence,  genial,  urbane  and  kindly,  was  possessed  of  marked  literary- 
ability,  as  shown  in  both  his  prose  and  verse  productions,  and  in  all  of  the  rela- 
tions of  life  he  so  bore  himself  as  to  retain  the  confidence,  respect  and  good 
will  of  his  fellow  men.  His  political  allegiance  was  given  to  the  republican 
party  and  he  was  an  effective  advocate  of  its  principles.  He  was  long  and 
prominently  affiliated  with  the  Masonic  fraternity,  held  membership  in  the  Ameri- 
can Bar  Association,  the  California  Bar  Association  and  the  Los  Angeles  County 
and  San  Diego  County  Bar  Associations.  For  years  he  was  one  of  the  leading 
and  most  popular  members  of  the  Cuyamaca  Club  of  San  Diego. 

At  Los  Angeles  on  the  12th  of  January,  1905,  was  solemnized  the  marriage  of 
Judge  Fuller  to  Mrs.  Ysidora  F.  (Couts)  Gray,  and  she  still  maintains  her  home 
in  this  city.  By  her  former  marriage  to  William  D.  Gray,  a  native  of  Virginia, 
Mrs.  Fuller  has  one  son  Chalmers  Gray  who  was  educated  at  Santa  Clara  College 
and  who  thereafter  assumed  charge  of  his  mother's  fine  ranch  property  in 
San  Diego  County.  He  entered  the  United  States  Navy  when  the  nation  became 
involved  in  the  World  war,  and  since  the  close  of  the  war  he  has  established 
himself  in  the  automobile  business  in  Los  Angeles.  Mrs.  Fuller's  attractive  home 
is  at  358  Van  Ness  avenue,  and  as  its  popular  chatelaine  she  has  made  it  the 
center  of  distinctly  representative  social  activity  in  Los  Angeles. 


Jonathan  ©emple 


ONATHAN  TEMPLE,  who  was  better  known  to  native  Cali- 
fornians  as  Don  Juan  Temple,  was  as  keen  a  Yankee  as  ever 
shipped  over  western  waters.  He  knew  how  to  make  money 
and  keep  it,  and  was  a  picturesque  if  not  a  magnificent  figure 
in  the  early  life  and  history  of  Southern  California. 

He  was  born  at  Reading  in  Middlesex  County,  Massa- 
chusetts. His  father,  Jonathan  Temple,  Sr.,  was  born 
September  25,  1768.  Jonathan  Temple  was  of  a  roaming 
disposition,  and  as  a  young  man  we  find  him  in  the  Sandwich  Islands  in  1825, 
owning  his  own  vessel  and  trading  with  the  natives.  As  early  as  1827  he  had 
established  himself  as  a  merchant  in  Los  Angeles,  where  his  business  career 
commenced.  He  established  himself  in  business  in  an  adobe  building  at  the 
intersection  of  Spring  and  Main  streets.  As  business  prospered  he  built  with 
an  eye  to  business  rental  property  just  south  of  his  store,  and  this  he  rented 
to  doctors,  lawyers,  merchants  and  others.  This  building  still  stands  in  August, 
1918,  and  is  known  to  all  Californians  as  the  Don  Juan  Temple  block.  After 
Mr.  Jonathan  Temple's  death  this  property  was  sold  to  his  brother  F.  P.  P. 
Temple  for  ten  thousand  dollars.  The  old  adobe  building  was  then  torn  down 
and  what  is  known  as  the  Temple  Block  was  erected,  in  which  the  Temple  and 
Workman  Bank  was  opened. 

In  the  middle  fifties  Mr.  Temple  built  what  was  known  as  the  City  Market, 
standing  where  the  Bullard  block  is  now  located.  It  was  fashioned  after 
Faneuil  Hall  in  Boston,  the  lower  story  being  adapted  as  a  market,  while  the 
upper  story  was  used  for  judicial  offices.  Here  Don  Ignacio  Sepulveda,  one 
of  the  old  California  judges,  held  court  for  quite  a  number  of  years,  as  well 
as  Hon.  Volney  E.  Howard.  Mr.  Temple  also  owned  the  lot  where  the  Post- 
office  and  Federal  Building  now  stand. 

He  was  not  satisfied  with  inside  property  and  began  to  reach  out.  He 
bought  Don  Pedro  Dominguez'  interest  in  the  famous  Dominguez  ranch,  com- 
prising thirty  thousand  acres.  This  is  now  the  property  of  the  Jotham  Bixby 
heirs,  and  the  city  of  Long  Beach  is  built  on  the  property.  This  place  Mr. 
Temple  originally  stocked  up  with  large  herds  of  cattle.  As  a  basis  for  his 
grazing  industry  he  had  practically  all  the  lands  from  Los  Angeles  to  the 
ocean,  for  a  distance  of  twenty  miles,  and  an  equal  distance  from  east  to  west. 
He  and  his  brother  Pliny  Temple,  who  was  equally  as  rich  as  his  brother, 
combined  their  interests  and  sent  great  herds  of  cattle  to  the  mines  in  the 
northern  part  of  the  state,  reaping  immense  fortunes.  The  master  stroke  of 
Jonathan  Temple  was  in  leasing  the  mint  in  Mexico,  realizing  an  immense 
fortune  from  that  venture.  He  refused  a  million  dollars  for  his  concession 
He  lived  to  see  the  day  when  he  coined  his  own  money,  controlled  seven  hun- 
dred miles  of  the  western  coast  of  Mexico  and  had  his  boats  running  with  his 
goods  from  Acapulco  to  San  Francisco.  Without  entering  into  greater  details, 
Jonathan  Temple  was  the  richest  and  heaviest  taxpayer  in  Los  Angeles.  In 
business  he  did  not  mince  his  words,  while  his  brother  Pliny  on  the  other  hand 
could  not  say  no,  and  that  was  the  undoing  of  the  latter 's  vast  possessions. 
The  Temple  brothers  were  exceedingly  fond  of  their  eastern  relatives,  and 

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they  were  as  a  father  to  them  all,  particularly  to  their  sisters,  whom  they 
adored.  The  member  of  the  family  who  furnished  this  information  knew  two 
sisters  and  a  brother,  and  the  memories  of  their  brother  Pliny  leaving  Boston 
often  was  related  to  him.  Jonathan  Temple  would  visit  his  eastern  relatives 
quite  frequently,  stay  with  them  a  month  or  so  and  return  to  the  coast  with 
a  large  supply  of  the  merchandise  and  commodities  he  needed.  His  brother 
Pliny  went  back  to  Boston  only  once  to  visit  his  people,  and  that  was  June  20, 
1870,  after  an  absence  of  thirty  years.  He  found  only  three,  two  sisters  and 
a  brother,  out  of  a  family  of  eleven,  of  whom  he  was  the  youngest.  Jonathan 
and  Pliny  Temple  were  the  last  surviving  children.  The  only  surviving  heirs 
of  the  original  New  England  Temples  are  the  Temples  of  California,  including 
John,  Walter,  Charles,  Lucinda  and  Margarita.  Lucinda  married  Mr.  M.  M. 
Zuniga,  and  both  are  still  living.  Margarita  is  the  widow  of  Mr.  Samuel  P. 
Rowland. 

Jonathan  Temple  married  September  17,  1830,  Dona  Rafaela  Cota,  of 
Santa  Barbara.  To  this  union  there  was  born  one  child,  Miss  Francisca 
Temple.  She  married  Don  Gregorio  de  Ajuria,  a  native  of  Spain.  They  were 
married  about  August,  1848.  To  this  union  were  born  nine  children,  seven 
boys  and  two  girls. 

Jonathan  Temple  visited  Paris  March  20,  1858,  with  his  wife  and  with 
Don  Gregorio  and  his  family.  Mrs.  Temple  was  so  well  pleased  with  Paris 
that  she  eventually  went  there  to  pass  her  remaining  days.  Mr.  Temple  died 
in  San  Francisco,  May  31,  1866,  and  is  buried  there.  Mrs.  Temple  and  her 
daughter  Francisca  both  died  in  Paris,  and  are  buried  there.  Don  Gregorio 
de  Ajuria  and  his  children  are  all  now  deceased  but  one.  Antonio. 


Jf  ranct*  $lmp  JfM  temple 


HERE  is  a  rather  persistent  opinion  among  people  otherwise 
well  informed  that  Los  Angeles  was  not  discovered  until  the 
gold  which  made  the  name  California  potent  throughout  the 
civilized  world.  It  will  be  a  surprise  to  these  people  that 
men  other  than  Indians  and  Spanish  padres  were  living  and 
working  out  their  somewhat  isolated  though  not  unimportant 
destiny  in  this  section  of  Southern  California  long  before  the 
American  conquest. 
Perhaps  the  career  of  none  of  these  old  timers  will  serve  better  to  trans- 
late some  of  the  features  of  early  California  days  to  the  modern  generation 
than  that  of  Francis  Pliny  Fisk  Temple,  a  notable  and  picturesque  figure 
among  the  pioneers  of  Los  Angeles,  and  several  of  whose  sons  are  still  active 
in  affairs  and  well  known  in  Southern  California. 

Francis  Pliny  Fisk  Temple  was  born  at  Reading,  Middlesex  County, 
Massachusetts,  February  12,  1822.  He  represented  one  of  the  oldest  and 
most  highly  respected  New  England  families.  As  a  young  man  he  attended 
the  public  schools  of  his  native  town  until  he  was  about  seventeen  years  of 
age,  and  then  took  a  two  years'  mercantile  course  in  Boston.  Reading  was 
a  quiet  town  and  offered  little  opportunity  to  an  ambitious  young  man.  He 
therefore  determined  to  follow  the  example  of  an  older  brother  and  come  to 
California.  He  embarked  on  a  vessel  at  Boston  January  18,  1841,  and  after 
a  long  voyage  around  the  Horn  arrived  at  Los  Angeles  in  the  summer  of  the 
same  year.  When  he  arrived  here  he  was  a  boy  of  nineteen.  Jonathan  Temple, 
his  older  brother,  with  the  energy  characteristic  of  the  family  had  identified 
himself  with  Southern  California  as  a  pioneer  merchant  in  1827,  and  in  the 
meantime  had  become  the  leading  merchant  of  Los  Angeles.  The  younger 
brother  joined  him  in  business  and  lived  with  Jonathan  until  his  marriage 
on  September  30,  1845.  Francis  Temple  married  Senorita  Antonia  Margarita 
Workman,  only  daughter  of  William  Workman,  Esquire. 

After  his  marriage  he  remained  with  his  father-in-law  at  the  Puente  Rancho 
for  some  three  years.  Two  of  his  children  were  born  there,  Thomas  and 
Francis  Temple.  The  latter  died  some  forty  years  afterward  almost  to  a  day 
in  the  same  room  in  which  he  was  born.  During  this  time  Mr.  Temple  pur- 
chased La  Merced  Rancho,  consisting  of  2,363  acres,  where  he  built  for  himself 
a  large  roomy  and  substantial  adobe  building,  after  the  old  Spanish  style, 
110x100  feet,  forming  a  half  square.  There  he  engaged  largely  in  the  breed- 
ing of  stock,  and  he  also  bought  stock  from  other  raisers  and  sent  immense 
droves  of  cattle  north.  As  a  stockman  he  realized  immense  profits.  About 
1850  he  commenced  the  work  of  further  improving  and  beautifying  his  home 
property  on  the  Merced  ranch.  He  planted  a  vineyard  of  fifty  thousand  vines, 
set  out  thirty  acres  to  miscellaneous  fruits,  and  laid  out  a  beautiful  garden, 
one  of  the  finest  in  the  county  in  that  day.  Mr.  Temple  was  also  a  lover  of 
fine  horses,  and  much  interested  in  their  breeding.  In  1860  he  purchased  Black 
Warrior,  paying  seven  thousand  dollars,  an  almost  unheard  of  price  for  a  single 
animal  in  those  days.  He  was  also  interested  in  the  breeding  of  fine  mules, 
paying  a  thousand  dollars  for  a  Kentucky  Jack.    About  this  time  he  began 

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fencing  in  his  large  domain,  spending  about  forty  thousand  dollars  for  that 
purpose  alone,  besides  building  commodious  barns  for  his  stock.  All  the  lumber 
had  to  be  brought  by  wagon  from  San  Pedro  harbor,  a  distance  of  thirty  miles. 

Mr.  Temple  was  one  of  the  heavy  land  owners  of  California.  He  was  half 
owner  of  Rancho  Tejon,  which  contained  twenty-two  leagues ;  and  was  also 
part  or  whole  owner  of  the  following  ranches :  Chonchella,  containing  one 
hundred  ten  thousand  acres ;  San  Emedio,  thirty  thousand  acres ;  La  Merced, 
two  thousand  three  hundred  and  sixty-three  acres;  Potrero  Grande,  four  thou- 
sand four  hundred  and  thirty-one  acres;  Rancho  Potrero  de  Felipo  Lugo,  two 
thousand  and  forty-two  acres.  He  also  owned  the  Temple  Block  and  had 
numerous  lots  and  acre  properties  scattered  all  the  way  from  Los  Angeles 
to  the  ocean. 

His  participation  in  business  affairs  of  Los  Angeles  was  as  a  pioneer 
banker.  He  became  associated  with  I.  W.  Hellman  and  his  father-in-law, 
William  Workman.  This  partnership  was  dissolved  in  1871,  and  was  suc- 
ceeded by  the  banking  house  of  Temple  and  Workman.  The  new  firm  had 
their  headquarters  in  the  massive  structure  known  then  and  now  as  the 
Temple  Block,  one  of  the  best  business  locations  in  the  city.  The  Temple 
and  Workman  bankers  became  well  known  in  business  circles  all  over  the 
Pacific  Coast,  throughout  the  adjacent  territories,  and  in  many  of  the  prin- 
cipal financial  centers  of  the  East.  The  firm  failed  in  1875-76.  Through 
that  failure  the  magnificent  fortune  so  energetically  acquired  by  the  pro- 
prietors melted  away.  Mr.  Workman  died  May  17,  1876.  Mr.  Temple  never 
recovered  from  the  financial  disaster  by  which  he  lost  all  but  his  honor.  He 
died  of  apoplexy  at  La  Merced  ranch  April  27,  1880.  He  lies  in  the  La 
Puente  family  burying  ground  by  the  side  of  his  bride  of  long  ago,  whom 
he  took  from  the  Workman  homestead  when  she  was  fifteen  and  he  a  young 
man  of  twenty-two. 

Perhaps  the  most  impressive  fact  about  his  career  was  neither  his  splendid 
accumulations  of  land  and  property  nor  the  disaster  which  overtook  him  in 
banking,  but  consisted  in  the  qualities  of  a  noble  heart,  especially  generosity, 
which  would  not  allow  him  to  see  anyone  suffer.  During  the  smallpox  epi- 
demic of  1863  he  kept  a  carpenter  at  his  ranch  at  La  Merced  especially  to 
make  coffins  for  the  poor,  and  they  were  free  to  anyone  that  needed  them. 
As  a  friend  he  tided  many  a  family  over  temporary  crises  by  covering 
their  credit  at  the  grocery  store.  His  generosity  and  his  inability  to  say 
no  were  the  real  causes  of  his  downfall,  since  he  was  taken  advantage  of  at 
every  turn.  Mr.  Temple  was  the  father  of  eleven  children,  eight  growing 
to  manhood  and  womanhood,  six  sons  and  two  daughters. 

Apart  from  the  interest  attaching  to  it  due  to  the  personality  of  the 
pioneer  writer,  there  is  much  vivid  history  contained  in  a  letter  now  care- 
fully preserved  by  his  descendants  and  written  by  Francis  Pliny  Fisk  Temple 
to  his  brother  in  1845.  It  is  the  privilege  of  the  publishers  to  quote  this 
letter  in  its  essential  parts,  thus  giving  permanent  record  to  a  document 
which  is  now  more  than  seventy  years  old. 

"Pueblo  de  Los  Angeles,  Dec.  27,  1845. 

Dear  Brother : 

The  country  is  quiet  at  present.  How  long  it  will  continue  is  difficult  to 
say.  At  all  events  it  will  remain  so  until  we  have  grass  to  fatten  the  horses, 
as  Californians  cannot  fight  unless  they  have  something  to  run  away  on. 
We  have  had  no  rain  to  speak  of  since  1843.  The  plains  are  now  barren  as 
the  Desert  of  Arabia.  The  cattle  are  dying  of  hunger  in  many  parts.  How- 
ever, I  hope  in  the  course  of  the  next  month  we  shall  have  some  rain,  if  not 
tallow  will  be  scarce  the  coming  season.  Last  February  the  Californians 
with  the  assistance  of  foreigners  sent  General  Michel tonen  with  his  troops 
out  of  the  coiintry.    The  battle  was  fought  about  ten  miles  from  this  place. 


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There  was  a  great  number  of  cannon  fired  but  without  injury  to  either  party; 
except  the  killing  of  a  few  horses  which  is  not  of  much  consequence  in  this 
country.  Had  the  General  gained  the  day  the  Pueblo  probably  would  have 
been  plundered  by  his  troops,  as  he  had  promised  them  previous  to  their  arrival 
near  the  place  that  in  case  of  victory  they  should  have  two  hours  for  plunder, 
but  they  were  not  victorious,  they  were  sent  to  San  Pedro  to  embark  on  board 
an  American  ship  for  San  Bias. 

"Don  Pio  Pico  is  now  governor  of  California.  He  resides  in  this  place, 
this  being  the  seat  of  government  at  present.  The  Pueblo  is  increasing  in 
population.  Quite  a  number  of  houses  (or  huts)  were  put  up  last  season.  A 
considerable  quantity  of  brandy  and  wine  was  made  here  this  year,  this  section 
of  the  country  being  the  only  part  where  liquors  are  made.  Brandy  is  worth 
here  thirty  dollars  a  barrel  of  eighteen  gallons,  wine  bears  different  prices,  ac- 
cording to  its  quality,  say  from  eighteen  to  twenty  dollars  per  barrel." 

Mrs.  F.  P.  F.  Temple  died  January  24,  1882.  Her  eleven  children,  with 
the  dates  of  their  birth,  were :  Thomas  Workman  Temple,  November  26,  1846 ; 
Francis  Workman  Temple,  August  5,  1848 ;  William  Temple,  May  25,  1851 ; 
David  Harris  Temple,  December  11,  1853 ;  John  Harrison  Temple,  February 
27,  1856 ;  David  Harris  Temple,  April  4,  1858 ;  Lucinda  Amada,  September  13, 
1860 ;  Agnez,  June  5,  1863 ;  Margarita,  September  2,  1866 ;  Walter  Pablo,  June 
7,  1869;  and  Charles  Parker  Temple,  May  10,  1872.  Of  these  Thomas  W. 
Temple  died  February  11,  1892 ;  Francis  Workman  Temple,  August  2,  1888 ; 
and  William  Temple,  February  1,  1917.  The  three  children  that  died  in  child- 
hood were :  David  Harris  Temple,  December  21,  1856 ;  David  Harris  Temple, 
July  29,  1859,  and  Agnez  Temple,  July  19,  1865. 


Jolm  garrison  ©emple 


HILE  he  would  be  properly  classified  as  a  retired  resident  of 
Los  Angeles,  John  H.  Temple  still  has  many  connections  that 
give  to  his  career  a  special  interest  for  all  who  esteem  the 
builders  and  makers  of  Southern  California  and  the  historical 
progress  of  the  past. 

Mr.  Temple,  a  son  of  F.  P.  F.  Temple,  the  pioneer  Cali- 
fornian  whose  career  has  preceded  this,  and  Miss  Marga- 
rita Workman,  only  daughter  of  William  Workman,  was 
born  at  La  Merced  Rancho  February  27,  1856.  During  his  youth  he  was 
carefully  reared  and  liberally  educated.  Up  to  his  eleventh  year  he  was 
taught  by  a  private  tutor  at  his  grandfather,  Mr.  William  Workman's  home 
at  La  Puente.  This  was  a  wonderful  environment  for  his  formative  years, 
the  historic  Workman  homestead  being  surrounded  by  twenty-five  thousand 
acres  of  land.  He  was  then  sent  to  Santa  Clara  College,  where  he  remained 
some  three  years.  Returning  to  his  father's  farm,  La  Merced,  he  was  his 
father's  assistant  until  September,  1874,  when  he  was  sent  East  to  his  father's 
birthplace,  Reading,  Massachusetts,  and  lived  there  two  years  with  his  father's 
sister,  Mrs.  Clarinda  Bancroft.  While  there  he  attended  school  in  Reading 
for  about  one  year,  then  went  to  Bryant  &  Stratton's  Commercial  School  in 
Boston.  Receiving  his  diploma,  he  traveled  through  the  New  England  states, 
visiting  Washington,  and  was  at  the  Centennial  Exposition  in  Philadelphia  in 
1876.  He  went  back  to  Reading,  but  after  a  brief  stay  started  home  for  Cali- 
fornia, purchasing  his  return  ticket  almost  two  years  to  a  day  after  he  had 
started  for  Boston. 

He  had  need  of  all  the  education  and  the  resources  of  his  individual  char- 
acter, since  about  the  time  he  reached  his  majority  his  father  failed  in  busi- 
ness, and  the  family  fortune  was  swept  away.  John  H.  Temple  proved  equal 
to  the  emergency.  Soon  after  arriving  home  he  took  active  control  of  the 
seventy-five  acre  ranch  known  as  the  Rancho  Potrero  de  Felipe  Lugo.  He 
soon  had  a  walnut  orchard  of  forty-four  acres  developed,  and  built  his  own 
home  in  the  midst  of  that  grove.  As  none  of  his  brothers  were  married,  he 
felt  that  the  responsibility  of  taking  a  wife  devolved  upon  him.  More  than 
thirty  years  have  passed,  and  today  he  is  convinced  that  his  choice  brought 
him  the  sweetest  and  kindest  of  women,  Miss  Anita  Davoust,  daughter  of  Mr. 
Adrian  Davoust,  and  a  niece  of  the  famous  Marshall  Davoust  of  Napoleon's 
armies.  They  were  married  at  the  Old  Plaza  Church  in  Los  Angeles  Septem- 
ber 30,  1886,  by  Bishop  Verdagues.  Taking  his  bride  to  his  newly  furnished 
home,  he  remained  there  until  the  death  of  his  brother,  Francis  Workman 
Temple,  who  had  willed  the  historic  Temple  homestead  to  him  and  to  his 
brother,  William.  Later  Mr.  Temple  bought  his  brother  William's  half  interest, 
and  remained  there  about  ten  years.  Owing  to  inadequate  school  facilities  he 
determined  to  move  his  family  to  Los  Angeles,  and  has  been  a  resident  of  that 
city  since  1898.  Mr.  Temple  has  been  a  factor  in  developing  some  of  the 
most  valuable  properties  in  the  Los  Angeles  territory,  and  his  success  is  ample 
proof,  if  proof  were  needed,  of  the  inherent  business  ability  and  energy  of  the 

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Temple  family.  Mr.  Temple  is  a  republican  voter  and  a  member  of  the  Catholic 
Church. 

No  part  of  his  record  could  be  read  with  more  interest  than  that  pertain- 
ing to  his  children.  The  names  of  these  children  and  the  dates  of  their  birth 
follow:  Francis  Pliny  Fisk  Temple,  August  24,  1887;  Francis  Workman 
Temple,  November  17,  1888 ;  Edith  Christina  Temple,  January  20,  1891 ;  Adrian 
Davoust  Temple,  January  20,  1893;  George  Harrison  Temple,  February  2,  1895; 
Edmund  Parker  Temple,  January  7,  1897;  Robert  Palmerston  Temple,  Decem- 
ber 3,  1898;  and  John  Harrison  Temple,  February  27,  1904. 

The  oldest  son,  named  for  his  grandfather,  F.  P.  F.  Temple,  received  his 
certificate  of  graduation  from  the  high  school  and  then  undertook  work  for 
himself  when  quite  young.  He  now  holds  a  prominent  place  with  the  Salt 
Lake  Railroad.  He  married,  June  27,  1914,  Miss  Florence  Bacejalupi,  of 
Tacoma,  Washington,  and  their  union  has  been  blessed  with  a  boy,  given  the 
name  of  his  father  and  grandfather. 

Francis  Workman  Temple,  second  son,  named  for  his  uncle,  did  not  live 
to  see  many  years,  dying  in  his  twentieth  year.  He  is  buried  by  the  side  of 
his  uncle  and  namesake  at  the  Temple  burying  grounds  at  La  Puente. 

The  only  daughter,  Edith  Christina  Temple,  has  always  lived  with  her 
father  and  mother. 

Adrian  Davoust  Temple,  twenty-five  years  of  age  at  the  time  of  this  writ- 
ing, has  had  a  romantic  life.  He  enlisted  in  the  navy  when  a  mere  boy,  and 
during  his  service  of  four  years  traveled  practically  all  over  the  world.  He 
and  his  comrades  were  received  by  the  nobility  of  England,  and  visited  such 
historic  shrines  as  the  Pyramids  and  the  Sphinx  in  Egypt  and  the  Rock  of 
Gibraltar.  He  and  his  fellow  soldiers  were  in  Sicily  three  days  after  the  big 
earthquake,  and  among  them  they  raised  a  subscription  of  over  two  thousand 
dollars  for  the  earthquake  sufferers.  He  was  stationed  on  the  U.  S.  S.  Vermont, 
being  captain  of  one  of  the  big  guns,  with  sixteen  men  under  him.  As  a  rifle 
and  all  around  shot  he  was  considered  one  of  the  very  best,  receiving  the  gold 
medal  for  fine  marksmanship.  After  serving  his  four  years  he  was  honorably 
discharged,  and  after  extensive  travels  throughout  the  United  States  arrived 
in  Los  Angeles  and  lived  quietly  at  home  with  his  parents  a  year.  Then  came 
the  war  with  Germany,  and  he  immediately  offered  his  services  to  the  Gov- 
ernment as  an  aviator.  He  was  schooled  at  Pensacola,  Florida,  was  sent  to 
France,  served  on  the  allied  lines  about  eight  months,  and  was  then  transferred 
to  England,  where  he  was  stationed  at  the  time  of  this  writing,  in  August,  1918. 

George  Harrison  Temple,  who  like  the  rest  of  his  brothers  is  a  native  of 
Los  Angeles,  pursued  the  quiet  routine  of  home  life  until  the  outbreak  of  the 
war,  when  he  enlisted,  and  received  his  military  training  at  Camp  Lewis,  Wash- 
ington. 

Edmund  Parker  Temple,  a  graduate  of  the  grammar  schools,  followed  by  a 
course  at  the  Polytechnic  School,  was  just  past  nineteen  when  the  war  broke  out, 
but  he  volunteered  his  services  to  the  Government  like  his  other  brothers.  For 
several  months  he  was  stationed  at  Los  Angeles  as  a  recruiting  officer,  was  then 
sent  to  Camp  Pike,  Little  Rock,  Arkansas,  to  qualify  for  an  infantry  officer. 

Robert  Palmerston  Temple  received  his  graduation  certificate  from  the  com- 
mon schools  and  has  taken  up  the  driving  and  construction  of  automobiles. 
He  is  now  in  his  twentieth  year  and  expects  soon  to  join  the  colors,  and  at  his 
departure  four  of  the  Temple  family  will  be  enrolled  in  the  United  States 
service — a  record  of  unqualified  patriotism,  but  only  what  might  be  expected 
from  the  sturdy  qualities  exhibited  by  the  Temples  in  the  various  generations. 

The  youngest  son,  John  Harrison  Temple,  named  for  his  father,  is  in 
his  seventeenth  year  at  the  time  of  this  writing.  He  has  his  graduation  certi- 
ficate from  the  grammar  school  and  is  enrolled  for  the  four  years'  course  at 
the  Polytechnic  School. 


&tlltam  Workman 


ILLIAM  WORKMAN,  whose  interests  were  among  the  very 
foundation  stones  of  Southern  California's  prosperity  and 
greatness,  and  whose  life  was  run  with  the  romance  and 
endeavor  of  the  pioneers,  was  born  at  Clifton,  Westmoreland 
County,  England,  in  1800.  When  a  young  man  he  came  to 
the  United  States  and  traveled  much  over  the  Indian  country 
of  the  West.  He  stood  up  as  best  man  at  his  brother  David's 
wedding  in  Missouri  in  1830.  Soon  afterward  he  crossed  the 
range  to  New  Mexico,  then  part  of  old  Mexico,  and  formed  a  partnership  with 
Mr.  John  Rowland,  father  of  ex-sheriff  William  R.  Rowland  of  Los  Angeles 
County.  They  opened  a  general  merchandise  store,  but  gave  their  attention 
principally  to  buying  and  selling  furs  and  pelts.  They  also  owned  and  oper- 
ated a  flouring  mill.  The  two  partners,  after  remaining  in  New  Mexico  ten 
years  and  making  a  fortune,  concluded  to  go  to  California. 

Mr.  Workman  was  sent  on  ahead  to  look  up  the  situation,  Mr.  Rowland 
remaining  to  look  after  the  firm's  interests.  Mr.  Workman  started  from  Santa 
Fe  July  14,  1841.  His  passport  given  him  by  the  Mexican  authorities  in  1841 
is  now  in  the  possession  of  his  grandson,  John  H.  Temple,  who  has  furnished 
most  of  the  material  for  this  article.  After  being  on  the  road  four  months 
he  arrived  at  Los  Angeles  Guy  Fawkes  Day,  November  5th. 

While  crossing  the  Puente  Valley  he  was  irresistibly  attracted  by  the  fer- 
tility of  the  soil  and  the  situation.  He  immediately  began  negotiations  for 
purchasing  the  Puente  property,  containing  48,790  acres.  He  then  sent  for 
his  partner,  and  the  land  was  divided,  Mr.  Rowland  taking  the  east  half  and 
Mr.  Workman  the  west  half.  Mr.  Workman  immediately  set  himself  to  build- 
ing a  home,  choosing  a  beautiful  site,  which  even  in  this  day  brings  expressions 
of  admiration  from  all  visitors  as  to  the  beauty  of  the  spot.  On  this  site  he 
built  after  the  fashion  of  the  rich  Don  of  old  Mexico,  Mr.  Workman  being  as 
familiar  with  that  country  as  he  was  with  the  United  States.  The  dimensions 
of  his  house  were  75x150  feet,  and  it  was  built  of  adobe  walls  three  feet  thick 
with  a  flat  roof.  The  northern  portion  consisted  of  three  immense  rooms,  the 
eastern  room,  occupied  by  Mr.  Workman  and  family,  the  middle  room,  used  as 
a  dining  room,  and  the  west  room,  a  reserve  room.  This  reserved  room  subse- 
quently domiciled  Mr.  David  Workman,  his  brother,  when  he  arrived  from 
Missouri  in  the  early  fifties.  The  southern  part  of  the  building  consisted  of 
two  parallel  wings,  75  feet  long,  making  the  length  of  the  building  150  feet. 
The  parallel  wings  were  devoted  to  various  uses.  On  the  east  the  room  next 
to  the  main  building  and  to  Mr.  Workman's  sleeping  room  was  used  by  him 
as  a  smoking  and  rest  room.  It  contained  a  large  open  fireplace,  before  which 
he  spent  his  winter  evenings.  Next  to  that  was  the  well  room,  where  water  was 
drawn  for  all  domestic  purposes.  The  excavation  of  the  old  well  can  be  seen 
to  this  day.  For  drawing  the  water  a  large  English  pump  was  installed  with 
a  handle  four  or  five  feet  long  and  a  ball  at  the  end  weighing  about  ten  pounds. 
The  next  room  was  the  commissary  room,  for  keeping  clothing,  boots,  shoes, 
hats,  blankets,  as  there  were  some  fifty  men  always  employed  and  whose  wants 
were  supplied  from  the  ranch  store.    The  next  room  was  the  butcher  shop, 

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where  meats  were  cut  up  and  sold  to  the  ranch  hands.  A  steer  was  killed 
every  Monday  and  three  or  four  wethers  killed  during  the  week.  The  last 
room  was  a  blacksmith  shop,  where  a  man  was  always  employed  in  making 
bridle  bits,  spurs  and  doing  general  repairing  for  the  ranch. 

On  the  west  wing  and  next  to  the  extra  or  reserved  room  was  Mr.  Work- 
man's sitting  or  reception  room,  where  he  received  those  having  business  with 
him.  The  kitchen  was  underneath  this  room  and  the  food  was  taken  up  one 
flight  of  stairs  to  the  dining  room.  Next  to  the  sitting  room  was  the  school 
room,  in  which  Mr.  Workman  had  all  his  grandchildren  receive  their  preliminary 
instruction  before  sending  them  out  to  college  or  other  schools.  The  last  teacher 
Mr.  Workman  employed  was  Mr.  Frederick  Lamborn,  of  the  firm  of  Lamborn 
&  Turner.  He  remained  with  the  Workman  family  fifteen  years,  from  1860 
to  1875.  The  teacher  would  board  with  the  family  and  teach  the  children 
table  manners  as  well  as  more  formal  learning.  There  were  three  other  rooms 
in  this  wing,  these  being  used  to  store  saddle  trees,  saddles  and  all  that  pertain 
to  a  vaquero's  outfit,  and  also  for  the  storage  of  grain.  At  the  end  of  these 
two  parallel  wings  was  an  extension  at  right  angles  to  a  large  gate  some  fifteen 
or  twenty  feet  wide,  with  a  massive  lock  and  which  was  shut  everv  night.  On 
top  of  the  gate  was  an  elaborate  pigeon  house,  from  which  the  family  derived 
their  squabs  and  pigeons. 

Between  these  wings  and  the  main  building  was  a  patio,  an  arbor  of  grape 
vine,  and  on  either  side  orange  trees,  two  of  which  are  alive,  thrifty  and  bear- 
ing every  year,  none  the  worse  for  their  seventy-five  years  of  usefulness.  Mr. 
Workman  also  set  out  some  four  thousand  grape  cuttings,  manufacturing  his 
own  wine  and  brandy.  He  always  had  brandy  on  hand,  running  from  a  year 
to  twenty  years  in  age.  This  he  stored  in  a  large  cellar  immediately  under 
his  house.  He  also  built  three  large  wine  cellars,  one  used  for  a  crushing  and 
fermenting  cellar,  the  other  for  white  wine  and  the  third  for  red  wine.  These 
wines  were  sold  all  through  the  state,  but  the  principal  market  was  in  Boston, 
Massachusetts.  He  not  only  manufactured  his  own  wine,  but  bought  hundreds 
of  tons  of  grapes  on  the  outside. 

1863  and  1864  were  extremely  dry  years.  There  was  not  much  more  than 
an  inch  of  rain  in  the  two  years.  This  practically  put  an  end  to  cattle  raising 
in  Southern  California.  Mr.  Workman  was  compelled  to  kill  some  two  thou- 
sand head  to  save  their  hides.  The  cattle  were  driven  into  a  large  corral  from 
day  to  day  and  were  shot.  John  H.  Temple  recalls  seeing  cattle  go  up  to  a 
cactus  patch  so  weak  that  they  could  scarcely  walk  and  in  attempting  to  get 
something  to  eat  would  literally  cover  their  heads  and  mouth  with  cacti.  It 
was  one  of  his  greatest  ambitions  to  follow  his  grandfather  through  the  corral 
and  see  him  bring  his  bullock  down.  He  was  considered  one  of  the  best  shots 
in  the  West,  and  proved  it  many  a  day,  though  he  was  sixty-three  years  of  age. 
After  the  dry  seasons  of  1863-64  Mr.  Workman  turned  his  attention  more  to 
the  cultivation  of  his  ranch.  He  reserved  five  thousand  acres  for  wheat  rais- 
ing. This  was  known  as  the  Wheatfield  ranch  and  was  some  five  miles  north 
of  the  house.  One  of  the  greatest  difficulties  he  had  to  contend  with  was  in 
keeping  the  geese,  ducks  and  sandhill  cranes  away  and  from  destroying  all 
his  wheat.  These  birds  would  light  in  the  field  by  the  thousands,  and  men  were 
employed  continuously  guarding  the  wheat.  About  the  same  time  Mr.  Work- 
man began  the  construction  of  a  mill  about  four  miles  west  of  the  house  to 
utilize  the  wheat,  barley  and  corn  grown  on  the  ranch. 

Mr.  Workman  was  the  real  bank  pioneer  of  Los  Angeles,  though  seldom 
if  ever  appearing  in  the  banking  house  of  which  he  was  the  mainstay.  He 
and  his  son-in-law,  Mr.  F.  P.  F.  Temple,  and  I.  W.  Hellman  opened  the  first 
banking  house  in  Los  Angeles  in  1868.  This  company  was  dissolved,  and  in 
1871  the  Temple  and  Workman  Bank  was  opened  in  the  new  and  finely  finished 
Temple  Block,  and  on  the  same  ground  upon  which  Jonathan  Temple  opened 
his  store  in  1827.    This  company  did  business  all  through  the  western  states 


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as  far  as  the  city  of  Mexico,  and  had  the  confidence  of  the  world.  The  two 
partners  owned  land  aggregating  a  hundred  fifty  thousand  acres.  Mr.  Temple 
by  nature  was  not  a  banker,  was  too  easy  in  his  business  methods,  and  was 
taken  advantage  of  at  every  turn.  The  Temple  and  Workman  Bank  failed  in 
1875.  Mr.  Temple  was  obliged  to  borrow  money  and  mortgaged  his  own  prop- 
erty as  well  as  that  of  his  father-in-law,  Mr.  Workman,  at  such  exorbitant  rates 
of  interest  that  it  swallowed  up  all  their  ranches.  Mr.  Temple  died  April  27, 
1880,  of  a  broken  heart  and  was  buried  at  the  family  burying  ground  at  La 
Puente. 

Mr.  Workman  is  buried  in  his  own  graveyard,  which  he  designated  in  1850 
as  a  family  burying  ground.  He  selected  an  acre  of  ground  four  hundred 
yards  east  of  his  house,  had  it  walled  in  with  a  brick  wall,  built  a  chapel  and 
in  the  center  of  this  acre  he  had  a  lot  40x50  feet  fenced  in  with  an  iron  railing. 
Within  the  folds  of  this  railing  lie  the  mortal  remains  of  pioneers  who  helped 
to  make  California  history.  Mr.  Workman  lies  by  his  long  life  friend  and 
partner,  Mr.  John  Rowland,  and  by  the  side  of  his  brother  David,  who  was 
accidentally  killed  in  1855  while  riding  a  mule  in  the  northern  part  of  the  state, 
and  was  the  first  man  buried  in  the  little  plot  selected  by  his  brother.  His 
cherished  daughter,  Margareta,  and  his  son-in-law,  Mr.  F.  P.  F.  Temple,  lie 
near  him. 

It  is  incalculable  what  these  pioneers  would  command  today  if  they  should 
rise  and  own  the  property  they  once  had.  Mr.  Temple  alone  would  be  valued 
at  one  billion  dollars,  as  during  the  height  of  his  prosperity  he  owned  all  the 
Montebello  oil  fields  lands,  and  they  are  estimated  to  be  worth  over  one  billion 
dollars. 


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Jojm  &otolanb 

HE  American  pioneers  of  the  Los  Angeles  district  were  a  pictur- 
esque group  of  men,  and  some  of  them  were  also  men  of  the 
finest  character  and  eminently  qualified  for  the  duties  of  con- 
structive pioneering.  One  of  them  was  John  Rowland,  an  in- 
timate associate  and  fellow  pioneer  with  such  early  Americans 
of  Southern  California  as  William  Workman,  whose  interest- 
ing life  story  and  experience  has  been  described  on  other  pages. 
At  death  these  two  pioneers,  the  closest  friends  in  life,  were 
laid  side  by  side. 

John  Rowland  was  born  in  Maryland  and  in  early  manhood  went  into  the 
southwest  where  he  became  associated  in  the  mining  industry  at  Taos,  New 
Mexico,  as  a  partner  with  William  Workman.  In  1841  the  two  partners  set 
out  for  California  in  company  with  John  Tete,  Santiago  Martinez,  Thomas 
Belardo  and  others.  The  next  year  they  returned  to  Taos  for  their  families, 
so  that  their  permanent  residence  in  California  dates  from  1842.  On  their 
second  coming  they  were  accompanied  by  B.  D.  Wilson,  D.  W.  Alexander,  John 
Reed,  William  Perdue,  and  Samuel  Carpenter,  all  well  known  names  in  the 
early  history  of  Los  Angeles  County. 

Mr.  Rowland  and  William  Workman  together  obtained  a  grant  of  La 
Puente  Rancho,  comprising  forty-eight  thousand  acres.  On  that  beautiful  and 
historic  site  they  spent  the  rest  of  their  lives.  The  property  was  divided  by  the 
partners  in  1869,  and  about  a  year  afterwards  Mr.  Rowland  settled  up  his 
estate  and  divided  his  ranch  among  his  heirs,  giving  to  each  about  three  thou- 
sand acres  of  land  and  a  thousand  head  of  cattle.  He  lived  there  in  peace  and 
comfort  to  the  end  of  his  days,  passing  away  October  14,  1873,  at  the  age  of 
eighty-two.  His  first  wife  was  Dona  Incarnacion  Martinez.  Her  children  were 
John,  Jr.,  Thomas,  Robert,  Nieves,  who  married  John  Reed ;  Lucinda,  who 
became  the  wife  of  James  R.  Barton,  and  William  R.  For  his  second  wife  John 
Rowland  married  Mrs.  Charlotte  Gray,  whose  husband  had  been  killed  by  the 
Indians  while  crossing  the  plains.  She  was  the  mother  of  a  daughter,  Mary  A. 
Gray,  who  became  the  wife  of  Charles  Forman  of  Los  Angeles.  Mr.  Rowland's 
second  marriage  brought  him  two  children,  Albert  and  Victoria.  The  daughter 
became  the  wife  of  J.  W.  Hudson. 


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ILLIAM  RICHARD  ROWLAND  is  distinguished  in  the  citizen- 
ship of  Southern  California  principally  because  of  his  pioneer 
and  long  continued  responsible  connection  with  petroleum  oil 
development. 

The  year  1884  is  a  really  ancient  date  in  the  history  of 
petroleum  on  the  Pacific  Coast.  In  that  year  Mr.  Rowland 
and  Burdette  Chandler  started  to  bore  for  oil  in  the  hills  of 
Puente  Rancho.  That  rancho,  incidentally,  was  Mr.  Row- 
land's birthplace.  After  several  attempts  to  discover  petroleum,  they  met  with 
success,  and  the  Puente  Oil  Company,  which  has  grown  out  and  developed  from 
these  preliminary  investigations,  is  today  one  of  the  most  successful  and  oldest 
companies  in  California.  Mr.  Rowland  is  president  of  the  company  and  gives 
practically  all  his  time  to  its  affairs. 

Mr.  Rowland  was  born  at  the  La  Puente  Rancho,  in  Los  Angeles  County, 
November  11,  1846,  son  of  John  Rowland  and  Dona  Maria  E.  Martinez  Row- 
land. As  related  in  the  story  of  his  father  and  that  of  William  Workman,  the 
La  Puente  Rancho  was  acquired  by  these  pioneers  nearly  eighty  years  ago. 

William  R.  Rowland  acquired  his  early  education  in  the  public  schools,  in 
the  private  school  of  William  Wolf  skill  at  Los  Angeles,  and  during  1858-59-60 
was  a  student  in  Santa  Clara  College.  Until  1871  he  managed  his  father's  busi- 
ness, and  then  busied  himself  with  his  private  affairs.  He  became  interested  in 
the  petroleum  oil  industry  through  the  discovery  of  an  oil  well  on  his  ranch  of 
twenty-six  hundred  acres,  and  as  a  means  of  developing  the  well  commercially  he 
had  a  pipe  line  constructed  to  the  railroad.  One  of  the  first  industries  to  use 
the  crude  oil  as  fuel  was  the  Chino  Sugar  Factory.  The  oil  resources  of  the 
Puente  hills,  due  to  the  enterprise  of  Mr.  Rowland,  became  one  of  the  corner 
stones  of  the  colossal  industry  subsequently  developed  in  Southern  California. 

Mr.  Rowland  for  many  years  has  enjoyed  the  esteem  of  his  fellow  citizens, 
and  has  been  a  man  of  prominence  in  the  life  of  his  locality  and  the  affairs  of 
state.  In  1871  he  was  elected  sheriff  of  Los  Angeles  County,  and  was  re-elected, 
filling  the  office  for  about  five  years,  during  a  period  which  tried  the  utmost  re- 
sourcefulness, skill  and  courage  of  an  official  in  that  position.  As  a  democrat  he 
was  appointed  by  Governor  Budd  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the 
Whittier  School  and  was  influential  in  bringing  that  institution  to  a  higher 
standard  of  efficiency  and  usefulness.  Mr.  Rowland  is  a  member  of  the  Cali- 
fornia Club  and  is  widely  known  in  business  and  social  circles. 

He  married  Miss  Manuela  Williams.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Rowland  have  two 
children,  Miss  Nina  and  Mrs.  Clarence  Moore,  both  of  Los  Angeles. 


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HOMAS  O.  TOLAND  is  a  member  of  the  prominent  Los 
Angeles  law  firm  of  Andrew,  Toland,  Gregg  &  Andrews.  His 
professional  record  in  California  is  a  long  and  enviable  one 
and  has  made  him  widely  known  over  the  state.  He  is  one  of 
the  oldest  students  of  the  Hastings  College  of  Law  and  has 
been  a  member  of  the  California  bar  over  thirty  years. 

Mr.  Toland  was  born  at  Bluff  Springs,  Clav  County, 
Alabama,  September  13,  1856,  a  son  of  James  and  Mildred 
Ann  (Street)  Toland.  He  grew  up  in  Alabama,  acquiring  his  early  educa- 
tion in  the  common  schools  and  at  the  Munford  Academy,  Andrew  McDonald, 
president.  In  January,  1874,  he  entered  the  University  of  Virginia,  remain- 
ing one  term,  and  in  the  fall  of  the  same  year  entered  the  Agricultural  and 
Mechanical  College  at  Auburn  in  his  native  state. 

Coming  to  California  in  January,  1875,  he  immediately  entered  the  Uni- 
versity of  California  at  Berkeley.  He  was  prominent  in  student  activities, 
being  editor  of  the  "Besom,"  a  University  paper,  in  1876,  and  in  1877-78  was 
editor-in-chief  of  the  "Berkeleyan,"  which  he  changed  from  a  college  paper 
to  a  college  magazine.  He  graduated  from  the  Literary  Department  of  the 
University  with  the  class  of  1878,  receiving  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts. 
This  was  followed  with  the  law  course  of  Hastings  College  at  Law  and  ad- 
mission afterward  to  the  California  bar  by  the  Supreme  Court  at  Los  Angeles. 
He  has  also  practiced  before  the  United  States  Courts,  and  was  admitted  to 
the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States  December  15,  1910. 

Between  these  dates  he  had  a  long  and  varied  experience  not  only  as  a 
lawyer  but  as  a  teacher  and  worker.  After  leaving  the  University  of  Cali- 
fornia he  was  employed  in  the  grocery  business  by  R.  G.  Huston  at  Berkeley, 
and  was  a  law  clerk  and  student  in  the  office  of  George  D.  Shadburne  in  San 
Francisco  in  1878.  In  1880  he  taught  mathematics  in  Brewer 's,  Military 
Academy  at  San  Mateo,  was  in  charge  of  San  Anselmo  grammar  school  in 
Marin  County  in  1880-81,  and  worked  in  law  offices  and  studied  law  during 
1881-82,  following  which  he  again  taught  school  from  1882  to  1886  at  Hueneme 
and  Santa  Paula  in  Ventura  County.  He  opened  his  first  law  office  and  also 
engaged  in  real  estate  at  Santa  Paula  as  a  member  of  the  realty  firm  of 
Guiberson  &  Toland  in  1886.  The  same  year  the  realty  firm  became  Toland  & 
Baker,  and  so  continued  until  May,  1890,  when  he  removed  to  San  Buena 
Ventura,  the  county  seat,  to  engage  in  law  practice  alone.  He  acquired  the 
library,  office  and  station  of  Hon.  Lemuel  C.  McKeeby,  who  had  removed  to 
Los  Angeles. 

From  1893  to  1895  Mr.  Toland  was  district  attorney  of  Ventura  County; 
was  city  attorney  of  San  Buena  Ventura  in  1896-98 ;  represented  the  Sixty- 
fifth  District  in  the  State  Assembly  in  1897-99;  and  from  1899  to  1903  was 
a  member  of  the  State  Board  of  Equalization  from  the  Fourth  Equalization 
District.  He  did  some  notable  work  while  serving  on  this  board.  In  1896 
he  supported  George  S.  Patton  against  L.  J.  Rose,  Sr.,  in  the  celebrated  contest 
for  the  democratic  nomination  for  Congress  from  the  Sixth  Congressional 
District,  which  then  included  Los  Angeles  and  the  counties  south.    During  the 

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period  1884  to  1896  Mr.  Toland  was  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Education  of 
Ventura  County.  In  1906  he  was  the  democratic  candidate  for  lieutenant 
governor  of  California,  and  took  the  highest  popular  vote  given  a  democratic 
candidate  for  that  office  in  twenty-five  years. 

In  March,  1910,  he  removed  to  Los  Angeles  to  become  associated  with 
Lewis  W.  Andrews  in  the  practice  of  law.  That  association  has  developed  into 
the  present  firm  of  Andrews,  Toland,  Gregg  &  Andrews,  and  the  firm  has  been 
in  charge  of  the  legal  department  of  the  Union  Oil  Company  of  California  since 
1910. 

Mr.  Toland  is  a  member  of  the  various  Masonic  bodies,  including  Al 
Malaikah  Temple  of  the  Mystic  Shrine.  He  is  also  an  Odd  Fellow,  having 
been  a  member  of  Santa  Paula  Lodge  No.  314  since  1884.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  Alumni  Association  of  the  University  of  California;  in  politics  is  a 
democrat,  and  is  a  member  of  the  Los  Angeles  County  and  the  California 
State  Bar  associations,  and  of  the  Los  Angeles  Athletic  Club. 

August  16,  1900,  he  married  Miss  Carrie  Anna  Fleisher,  of  Santa  Paula, 
California.  She  is  a  graduate  of  the  State  Normal  School  of  Los  Angeles  and 
a  member  of  the  Eastern  Star  and  the  Ebell  Club. 


Joftn  &teben  JHctSroartp 


OHN  STEVEN  MeGROARTY,  poet,  historian  and  playwright, 
was  born  in  Foster  Township,  Luzerne  County,  in  northeastern 
Pennsylvania,  August  20,  1862.  He  is  the  son  of  Mary  and 
Hugh  Montgomery  McGroarty,  his  father  being  a  grand- 
nephew  of  Gen.  Richard  Montgomery  who  was  famous  as  one 
of  Washington 's  generals  in  the  American  Revolution  and  who 
fell  in  the  immortal  assault  on  Quebec  in  1778. 

John  Steven  was  educated  in  the  parochial  and  public 
schools  of  his  early  home,  and  later  pursued  his  studies  in  The  Hillman  Academy 
of  Wilkes-Barre.  At  the  age  of  sixteen  years  he  entered  the  profession  of 
teaching,  which  he  abandoned  at  the  end  of  three  years  to  take  up  journalism, 
serving  his  apprenticeship  on  the  Wilkes-Barre  "Leader,"  of  which  he  rose  to 
be  managing  editor. 

Taking  an  active  interest  in  politics,  Mr.  McGroarty  was  elected  Justice 
of  the  Peace  the  year  he  obtained  his  majority,  being  the  youngest  man  to  hold 
that  office  in  the  history  of  his  native  state.  At  twenty-six  he  was  elected  to 
be  treasurer  of  Luzerne  County,  being  also  the  youngest  man  ever  elected  to 
that  office.  At  the  expiration  of  his  term  as  county  treasurer  he  was  admitted 
to  the  Pennsylvania  bar  where  he  practiced  law  for  three  years,  and  then 
accepted  an  offer  from  Marcus  Daly,  the  famous  "Copper  King"  of  Montana, 
to  join  his  legal  staff  in  the  mountain  state  where  he  remained  until  the  time 
of  Mr.  Daly's  death.  He  then  toured  Old  Mexico  and  the  southwest,  finally 
locating  in  California  where  he  became  chief  editorial  writer  on  the  Los  Angeles 
"Times"  under  the  late  Gen.  Harrison  Gray  Otis.  He  held  this  position  for  a 
period  of  upwards  of  fifteen  years,  retiring  from  its  active  duties  to  prosecute 
special  literary  work  of  his  own.  He  is  still,  however,  a  member  of  the  staff  of 
"The  Times,"  contributing  to  its  columns  as  an  occasional  and  not  infrequent 
writer. 

Mr.  McGroarty 's  best  known  books  are  the  two  volumes,  "California"  and 
"Wander  Song,"  the  one  a  fascinating  narrative  of  the  romantic  history  of  the 
Golden  State,  and  the  other  a  volume  of  poems.  He  has  also  now  in  press  with 
the  publication  firm  of  Doubleday,  Page  &  Company,  New  York,  a  new  Cali- 
fornia narrative  which  will  appear  under  the  title  of  "The  High  House,"  and 
which  deals  with  a  phase  of  history  hitherto  quite  untouched  by  any  other 
writer. 

The  one  great  and  doubtless  immortal  literary  production  of  John  Steven 
McGroarty,  however,  is  the  now  world-famed  "Mission  Play,"  produced  for  a 
season  every  year  at  Old  Mission  San  Gabriel.  The  "Mission  Play"  is  de- 
clared by  Dr.  Henry  Van  Dyke  to  be  the  world's  greatest  pageant  drama.  It 
has  been  visited  by  hundreds  of  thousands  of  people  from  every  part  of  the 
globe  and  its  prosperity  and  popularity  increases  with  each  passing  year. 

Mr.  McGroarty 's  home  in  California  is  situated  in  a  lovely  nook  of  the  Ver- 
dugo  Hills,  about  twenty  miles  distant  from  Los  Angeles.  It  is  an  ideal 
situation  for  a  writing  man,  and  it  is  a  spot  from  which  the  world  expects  still 
greater  inspirations  from  its  well-beloved  poet. 

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Amestoy,  Domingo,  219 
Amestoy,  Michael  F.,  219 
Andrews,  A.  V.,  357 
Avery,  Moses  N.,  287 

Bain,  Ferdinand  R.,  39 

Baker,  Fred  L.,  166 

Baker,  Milo  A.,  168 

Baker,  Milo  S.,  165 

Baldwin,  Elias  J.,  67 

Banning,  Anne  O.,  331 

Banning,  Hancock,  329 

Bartlett,  Oswald,  319 

Baum,  L.  Frank,  241 

Behymer,  Lynden  E.,  ("Bee")  173 

Bilicke,  Albert  C,  45 

Bixby,  Lewellyn,  91 

Blaekstone,  Nathaniel  B.,  283 

Blankcnhorn,  David,  177 

Book,  Charles  K.,  337 

Bridge,  Norman,  203 

Brown,  Harrington,  169 

Buffum,  Asa  M.,  19 

Buffum,  Rebecca  E.,  18 

Buffum,  William  M.,  17 

Burnham,  Rufus  W.,  227 

Canfield,  Charles  A.,  367 
Cantwell,  John  J.,  99 
Carhart,  Henry  S.,  361 
Castles,  Alfred  G.  R.,  137 
Childs,  Ozro  W.,  1 
Clampitt,  Edward  A.,  289 
Clampitt,  Margaret  M.,  290 
Clark,  Eli  P.,  89 
Coate,  Henry  R.,  Ill 
Cochran,  George  I.,  235 

Daum,  William  H.,  335 
Davis,  LeCompte,  323 
De  Tononi,  Isabel  R.,  159 
Doheny,  Edward  L.,  13 
Doheny,  Edward  L.  Jr.,  14 
Dorsey,  Susan  M.,  259 
Double,  Edward,  303 
Drake,  Charles  R.,  341 


Drake,  James  C,  61 
Dulin,  Edgar  S.,  43 
Dulin,  Garrettson,  171 

Earl,  Jacob  W.,  97 
Eckstrom,  Albert  A.,  233 
Etehemendy,  Jean,  51 

Fargo,  Duane  W.,  181 
Faris,  William  A.,  23 
Fay,  John  J.  Jr.,  307 
Fleming,  Thomas  J.,  355 
Forman,  Charles,  25 
Forman,  Mary  A.,  26 
Frank,  Herman  W.,  299 
Freeman,  Daniel,  57 
Frost,  Charles  H.,  217 
Frost,  Howard,  217 
Fuller,  Clarence  M.,  343 
Fuller,  George,  381 

Gaffey,  John  T.,  377 
Gaffney,  Robert  J.,  149 
Germain,  Eugene,  275 
Getty,  George  F.,  103 
Gibbs,  Robert  A.,  147 
Gilfillan,  Sennet  W.,  79 
Glassell,  Andrew  V,  297 
Glassell,  Andrew  Sr.,  293 
Gordon,  Frederick  V.,  309 

Haas,  Walter  F.,  107 

Haggarty,  John  J.,  49 

Hancock,  George  Allan,  35 

Hancock,  Henry,  31 

Hanna,  George,  179 

Hay,  W.  H.,  249 

Hoak,  E.  K.,  195 

Holterhoff,  Godfrey  Jr.,  255 

Holton,  George  L.,  109 

Hopper,  Charles  B.,  269 

Hospital  of  the  Good  Samaritan,  261 

Howland,  Charles  H.,  59 

Huntington,  Henry  E.,  81 

Hyatt,  Chauncey  W.,  143 

Hyatt,  Mary  J.,  143 


403 


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INDEX 


Ingrabam,  Irving  E.,  251 

Jacobson,  Nils,  247 
Jarchow,  Joachim  H.  F.,  221 
Jenkins,  John  J.,  229 
Johnson,  Gail  B.,  237 
Jones,  Johnstone,  93 

Kayser,  Emil,  339 
Kellogg,  Fred  E.,  351 
Kerckhoff,  William  G.,  313 
Koebig,  Adolph  H.,  315 

Lackey,  Bertram  D.,  41 
Larronde,  Juana,  53 
Larronde,  Pierre,  53 
Loeb,  Adrien,  77 
Lott,  Melvina  A.,  223 

Mack,  George,  213 
Meade,  Agnes  S.,  141 
Meade,  G.  Walter,  141 
McCarthy,  Daniel  0.,  271 
McCollough,  Alexander  M.  F.,  277 
McCollough,  Vernon  C,  279 
McCoy,  John  C,  207 
McGroarty,  John  S.,  401 
McNair,  David,  327 
McQuigg,  Martin  V.,  215 
Miller,  John  B.,  123 
Montgomery,  Ernest  A.,  101 
Montgomery,  FTancis  S.,  373 
Montgomery,  Gertrude  P.,  373 
Montgomery,  James  A.,  151 
Moses,  Cassius  M.,  163 
Mosier,  Martin  H.,  345 
Mullen,  Andrew,  63 
Musser,  Henry  L.,  265 

Newmark,  Harris,  125 
Newmark,  Maurice  H.,  127 
Newport,  Fred  P.,  379 
Nordlinger,  Louis  S.,  120 
Nordlinger,  Simon,  119 

Oldfield,  Barney,  353 

Orcutt,  Leafie  Sloan,  185 

Ortega,  Emilio  C,  87 

Ortega,  Concepeion  Dominguez,  87 

Page  Military  Academy,  147 
Parker,  Claude  I.,  311 
Patton,  George  S.,  191 
Patton,  George  S.  Jr.,  193 
Peck,  George  H.,  55 
Pelanconi,  Antonio,  157 
Pelaneoni,  Lorenzo  A.,  157 
Pellissier,  Germain,  145 
Phillips,  Lee  A.,  113 


Ponet,  Ellen  J.,  376 
Ponet,  Victor,  375 
Powers,  John  F.,  75 
Prather,  Will  C,  199 
Price,  Frank  T.,  153 

Ralphs,  Albert  G.  Jr.,  136 
Ralphs,  George  A.,  135 
Red  Cross  Shop,  The,  331 
Rhoades,  Nelson  O.,  161 
Rhodes,  Allin  L.,  301 
Ross,  Ida  H.,  33 
Rowland,  Charlotte  M.,  29 
Rowland,  John,  395 
Rowland,  William  R.,  397 
Rowntree,  John  T.,  131 
Rush,  Judson  R.,  325 
Russell,  John  N.  Jr.,  201 

Sabichi,  Frank,  155 
Sabichi,  G.  Carlos,  359 
Safford,  George  S.,  257 
Sargent,  Edwin  W.,  85 
Sartori,  Joseph  F.,  47 
Scott,  William  B.,  365 
Sellers,  Edgar  E.,  129 
Sepulveda,  Jose  D.,  305 
Sepulveda,  Maria,  305 
Sherman,  Moses  H.,  321 
Shirley,  Ira  W.,  183 
Slusher,  Margaret  F.,  73 
Smith,  Spencer  H.,  291 
Solomon,  Fred  H.,  253 
Spellacy,  Timothy,  37 
Strassberger,  Carl  Clemens,  245 

Taylor,  Frank  W.,  317 
Temple,  Francis  P.  F.,  385 
Temple,  John  H.,  389 
Temple,  Jonathan,  383 
Thorpe,  Spencer  B.,  21 
Toland,  Thomas  O.,  399 
Tononi,  Giacomo,  159 
Tononi,  Isabel  R.  De,  159 
Toplitzky,  Joseph,  371 

Walker,  Mrs.  Horatio  Jr.,  262 
Waterman,  J.  M.,  117 
Whitley,  H.  J.,  347 
Wilson,  Benjamin  D.,  187 
Wilson,  George  J.,  105 
Wilson,  John  K.,  284 
Workman,  Boyle,  9 
Workman,  William,  391 
Workman,  William  H.,  3 
Workman,  William  H.  Jr.,  65 

Yarnell,  B.  F.,  281 
Yarnell,  Jesse,  197 


